Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera

ISBN-13: 9780190915056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 312 str.

Gabriela Cruz

Recenzje

A technology that was already malleable to infinite metaphorical transformations, phantasmagoria traverses this book in the way of a prismatic device, allowing the reader to see and hear the unseen and unheard, and to keep a steady focus on the intersecting multiplicity of influences and reactions, of illusions and disillusions. The author canvasses with unparalleled proficiency the voices of journalists and philosophers, of inventors and composers. The result is a phantasmagoria itself: a rich account that alternates revelatory appearances and ghostly presences on a stage that expands from the theatres to the cities of the European nineteenth century.

O autorze

Gabriela Cruz is a musicologist specializing in opera and musical theater in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She teaches courses on nineteenth-century music, opera, and the music of the Iberian peninsula at the University of Michigan.