Saint Germain des Pres is a very important book about a street and a small district in Paris during a particularly vital decade--1945 to 1955. A great period of ideas, Saint-Germain-des-Pres between 1944-1945 was the site of unparalleled artistic explosion in Paris. The end of the war in Paris brought about a veritable creative explosion in the arts, from literature, to music, from philosophy to dance, from theatre to painting and much more. Much like the end of the war in 1870 witnessed the creative explosion in Montmartre, and the end of World War I witnessed the creative explosion in...
Saint Germain des Pres is a very important book about a street and a small district in Paris during a particularly vital decade--1945 to 1955. A great...
Perhaps no other art form in the Western world has polarized opinion to the same extent as opera. While its devotees can be almost fanatical in their enthusiasm, its detractors will dismiss lyric theatre as an impossible hybrid. Literature and music undermine one another when brought together, they maintain. Their contempt for the genre is more often than not motivated by the supposedly mediocre quality of the librettos or scripts to which the works are set as well as the implausibility of characters singing instead of speaking their emotions. But what if these much maligned scripts provided...
Perhaps no other art form in the Western world has polarized opinion to the same extent as opera. While its devotees can be almost fanatical in their ...
