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Surgery, note by note: Marin Marais’ “Tableau de l’Opération de la Taille”

January 30, 2017

James L. Franklin Chicago, Illinois, United States   Figure 1. Marin Marais, 1704 André Bouys How has medicine been depicted in music? Examples from the operatic stage come to mind: tuberculosis in Verdi’s La Traviata and Puccini’s La Bohème; madness or delirium in the mad scene in Donizetti’s Lucia Da Lammermoor and Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking […]