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300 a| 257 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| Opera is legendary for going to extremes--a tendency that has earned it a reputation for unreality. This book shows the reverse to be true and argues that for the past two centuries the preoccupation of a group of famous operas with the limits of supremacy and debasement helped to define a normality that seems the very opposite of the operatic. Exemplified in a series of beloved examples, a certain idea of opera--a fiction of opera--has contributed in key ways to the modern era's characterizations of desire, identity, and social order. This book exposes this process at work in operas by Richard Wagner, who put modernity on the agenda in ways no one after him could ignore, and by the young Richard Strauss. The book continues the initiative of much recent writing in treating opera as a multimedia rather than a primarily musical form. From Lohengrin and The Ring of the Niebelung to Salome and Elektra, it traces the rich interplay of operatic visions and voices and their contexts in the birth pangs of modern life.;

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Opera and modern culture : Wagner and Strauss / Lawrence Kramer.

Author/creator	Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Description	257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas. Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Operas. Opera--Social aspects. Sex in opera. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Contents	Prologue: thinking through opera with Wagner and Strauss -- Opera: two or three things I know about her -- Contesting Wagner: the Lohengrin prelude and anti-anti-semitism -- The waters of Prometheus: nationalism and sexuality in Wagner's Ring -- Enchantment and modernity: Wagner the symptom -- Modernity's cutting edge: the Salome complex -- Video as Jugendstil: Salome, visuality, and performance -- Fin-de-siècle fantasies: Elektra and the culture of supremacism -- Epilogue: voice and its beyonds.
Abstract	Opera is legendary for going to extremes--a tendency that has earned it a reputation for unreality. This book shows the reverse to be true and argues that for the past two centuries the preoccupation of a group of famous operas with the limits of supremacy and debasement helped to define a normality that seems the very opposite of the operatic. Exemplified in a series of beloved examples, a certain idea of opera--a fiction of opera--has contributed in key ways to the modern era's characterizations of desire, identity, and social order. This book exposes this process at work in operas by Richard Wagner, who put modernity on the agenda in ways no one after him could ignore, and by the young Richard Strauss. The book continues the initiative of much recent writing in treating opera as a multimedia rather than a primarily musical form. From Lohengrin and The Ring of the Niebelung to Salome and Elektra, it traces the rich interplay of operatic visions and voices and their contexts in the birth pangs of modern life.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2003025286
ISBN	0520241738 (cloth : alk. paper)

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