Opera's Second Death

Slavoj Zizek

• 21 november 2001
• 9780415930161

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This is a passionate exploration of opera and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Zizek and Dolar explore the compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, and examine our own desires for opera and death.

Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.