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What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion? What is opera's seductive promise and how does it draw us into its embrace? This study considers the allure of several seducers and seductresses from nineteenth-century opera - Monteverdi's "Poppea", Handel's "Alcina", and Massenet's "Manon".

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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

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/04/2008
      ISBN13: 9780231140904, 978-0231140904
      ISBN10: 0231140908
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion? What is opera's seductive promise and how does it draw us into its embrace? This study considers the allure of several seducers and seductresses from nineteenth-century opera - Monteverdi's "Poppea", Handel's "Alcina", and Massenet's "Manon".

      Trade Review
      [A] thought-provoking philosophical study... Recommended. Library Journal

      Table of Contents
      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

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