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- catalog abstract ""In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts"--Jacket. "Contrasting the experience of morality in opera to that in tragedy, the Hutcheons find a mote apt analogy in the medieval custom of contemplatio mortis - a dramatized exercise in imagining one's own death that prepared one for the inevitable end and helped one enjoy the life that remained. From the perspective of a contemporary audience, they explore concepts of mortality embodied in both the common and the more obscure operatic repertoire: the terror of death (in Poulene's Dialogues of the Carmelites); the longing for death (in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde); preparation for the good death (in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung); and suicide (in Puccini's Madame Butterfly). In works by Janacek, Ullmann, Berg, and Britten, among others, the Hutcheons examine how death is made to feel logical and even right morally, psychologically, and artistically - how, in the art of opera, we rehearse death in order to give life meaning."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13141127.
- catalog contributor b13141128.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Contrasting the experience of morality in opera to that in tragedy, the Hutcheons find a mote apt analogy in the medieval custom of contemplatio mortis - a dramatized exercise in imagining one's own death that prepared one for the inevitable end and helped one enjoy the life that remained. From the perspective of a contemporary audience, they explore concepts of mortality embodied in both the common and the more obscure operatic repertoire: the terror of death (in Poulene's Dialogues of the Carmelites); the longing for death (in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde); preparation for the good death (in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung); and suicide (in Puccini's Madame Butterfly). In works by Janacek, Ullmann, Berg, and Britten, among others, the Hutcheons examine how death is made to feel logical and even right morally, psychologically, and artistically - how, in the art of opera, we rehearse death in order to give life meaning."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Music and the "murky death" -- The contemplation of death -- Eros and Thanatos : Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde -- "All that is, ends" : living while dying in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Orphic rituals of bereavement -- "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" : staging suicide -- The undead.".
- catalog extent "[ix], 239 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0674013263 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Convergences".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog subject "Death in opera.".
- catalog subject "ML1700 .H88 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Music and the "murky death" -- The contemplation of death -- Eros and Thanatos : Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde -- "All that is, ends" : living while dying in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Orphic rituals of bereavement -- "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" : staging suicide -- The undead.".
- catalog title "Opera : the art of dying / Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon.".
- catalog type "text".