“The Orchestra, in its Sounds, Defies Virtue…”: The Role of the Erotic in the Works of Massenet.
Massenet’s opera Esclarmonde, premiered in Paris during the 1889 Exposition Universelle, offers a particularly powerful case study for the ways in which a libretto articulating socially conservative structures meshes with, and enables, musically progressive expressivity. This essay analyses the oper...
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Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Transposition |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transposition/6494 |