Abends in die Scala

In "Loge und Liebe", the opera box becomes the setting for stories full of sound and movement, heralding the poetic magic of relationships between the sanguine and sonorous stage action and the feverish excitement of the audience. Italian bel canto stimulates French narrative art, Wagnerian ardor ignites love-death intoxication in decadent prose. For the poet Gustave Flaubert, the magic formula of 'aesthetic mysticism' guarantees the inner musicality of his stylistic artistry. Victor Hugo, on the other hand - to Goethe's horror - elevated the ugly and the grotesque to an element of art and enlivened opera and musicals with fiends such as Rigoletto, Quasimodo and Thénardier.

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