Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera
- ISBN-10
- 0231140908
- ISBN-13
- 9780231140904
- Series
- Enchantment
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Jean Starobinski
Description
"This book examines some figures of seduction as they have appeared over the course of opera's history." --introd.
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