BODILY CHARM: LIVING OPERA. by Hutcheon, Linda & Hutcheon, Michael. Inscribed - 2000

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 347 pp, 9 1/4" H. Non-personalized inscription on title page: "Thanks for making / opera (& dance) / live! / Linda & Michael" - possibly one author signing for both. B&w illustrations. "(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 such operas as 'Death in Venice', 'Salome', 'Rigoletto', Der Ring des Nibelungen', and 'Elektra'. Book is Fine. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling, a tiny tear at the bottom of the rear flap-fold, a tiny dent on both panels, price label on the rear panel.. Inscribed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.