Opera and Ideas: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness

Opera and Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.

Author: Paul A. Robinson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 10/15/1986
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.19w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780801494284