Download or read book Bodily Charm written by Linda Hutcheon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodily Charm is a passionate defense of opera as a living as well as live art. Written for both the opera lover and the specialist by a physician and a literary critic, it is an accessible and engaging interdisciplinary exploration of the operatic body—both the actual physical bodies of the singers and audience members and the represented body on stage in operas such as Death in Venice, Salome, Rigoletto, Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Elektra.