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The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage
Mary May Robertson
其他書名
The Essence of Opera
出版
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
, 2023-09-22
主題
Music / Genres & Styles / Opera
Music / Genres & Styles / Musicals
Health & Fitness / Beauty & Grooming
ISBN
1527531287
9781527531284
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k3XaEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“But what is this scent of balmy air? What this ray of light in my tomb? I seem to see an angel, amid a scent of roses” sings Florestan in Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera. The role of scents, smells, fragrances, and odours in opera has long been neglected, just as how much opera and its stars have influenced the world of perfumery from the nineteenth century to the present day. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the relationship between opera, perfumes, and their respective protagonists in order to map out the previously undiscussed connection between the two. Through compelling close readings of librettos and rigorous research through thousands of bottles of perfume, the reader will come to appreciate and recognise the influences and exchanges between operas and perfumes and their ultimate marriage in the previously unrecognised genre of Operatic Perfumes, which is to say, perfumes named after operas, composers, and their divas.