‘Qu’il est loin mon pays’: staging (be)longing in Massenet’s Sapho
At first glance, Jules Massenet's opera Sapho (1897) might appear to water down its source material, substituting the searing social commentary of Alphonse Daudet's novel (1884) with idealised tropes of the Midi. This article, however, seeks to complicate this reading, arguing that Sapho m...
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Taylor and Francis
2023
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