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- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Voices
- 1 Pneumotypes
- 2 Vocal Culture in the Age of Laryngoscopy
- 3 Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
- 4 Opera and Hypnosis: Victor Maurel’s Experiments in Suggestion with Verdi’s Otello
- Part II Ears
- Part III Technologies
- Part IV Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Opera and Hypnosis: Victor Maurel’s Experiments in Suggestion with Verdi’s Otello
from Part I - Voices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2019
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Voices
- 1 Pneumotypes
- 2 Vocal Culture in the Age of Laryngoscopy
- 3 Operatic Fantasies in Early Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
- 4 Opera and Hypnosis: Victor Maurel’s Experiments in Suggestion with Verdi’s Otello
- Part II Ears
- Part III Technologies
- Part IV Bodies
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
One day in his private home on the avenue Bugeaud, in Paris’s sixteenth arrondissement, the famous baritone Victor Maurel hosted a meeting which combined music with hypnotism of a young woman.
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- Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination , pp. 84 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019