From Orpheus charming the animals to Lévinas’ cockroach, the history of opera is filled with allegorical animals, featuring as mere minor characters or as the real protagonists of the plot. This book traces the adventure of this lyrical bestiary in which the song of the animal mixes with that of man, and sometimes replaces it.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
