| Description |
ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Convergences
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Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Music and the "murky death" -- The contemplation of death -- Eros and Thanatos : Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde -- "All that is, ends" : living while dying in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Orphic rituals of bereavement -- "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" : staging suicide -- The undead. |
| Subject |
Death in opera.
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Death in opera. |
| Added Author |
Hutcheon, Michael, 1945-
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| ISBN |
0674013263 alkaline paper |
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