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Episode 147: Masquerade | The Phantom of the Opera, Aesthetic Philosophy & Romanticism
Episode 147: Masquerade | The Phantom of the Opera, Aesthetic Philosophy & Romanticism
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63 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Put on your mask, close your eyes, and surrender to your darkest dreams. That’s right, we’re covering the longest running Broadway musical in history, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 mega-hit The Phantom of the Opera. We’’ll analyze the angel of music himself, the love triangle at the show’s core, and symbolism in the opera house through the lens of aesthetic philosophy and mythology—From Edmund Burke’s description of beauty and the sublime to Neoplatonism and the evolution of art-making. Is Phantom a great romance or a piece of gothic horror? All this and more on the Midnight Myth.
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Released:
Apr 26, 2020
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Podcast episode
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