Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera

Jean Starobinski

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April, 2008
Cloth, 288 pages, 9 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14090-4
$35.00 / £24.00

Acknowledgments

Foreward by Victor Brombert

Introduction

1. Singing and Seducing

2. The Da Ponte Operas

3. The Marriage of Figaro

4. Registers of Excess: Don Giovanni

5. Cosi fan tutte

6. The Promise of Idomeneo

7. Lights and Powers: The Magic Flute

8. Poppea Victorious

9. The Magic of Alcina

10. Love unto Death: Another Romeo

11. Manon

12. Arian and Bluebeard; or, The Useless Rescue

13. Elektra; or, The Accomplishment of Hatred

14. Ombra adorata

Notes

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

• Classical Music
• Music

Series

• European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

About the Author

Jean Starobinski is a well-known critic of French and comparative literature, and of music, and has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Basel, and the University of Geneva. His books in translation include Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction; The Living Eye; Action and Reaction: The Life and Adventures of a Couple; and The Invention of Liberty, 1700-1789.C. Jon Delogu is professor of English at the Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III in France.

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