Connecting opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred years, this book examines the relationship between the self and metaphysics as described by philosophers from Ficino through Descartes, Kant and Nietzsche, to Adorno. He then argues that opera, in its own right, has brought these subjects to the stage. Among the composers featured are Peri, Wagner, Lully, Verdi, Mozart and Britten. The book details interactions of song, words, drama and sounds used by creators of opera to fill in the outlines of the subjectivities they envisioned.
- ISBN10 0691004080
- ISBN13 9780691004082
- Publish Date 28 February 1999 (first published 21 February 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6661.html