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Siren songs : representations of gender and sexuality in opera /

It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera
Otros Autores: Smart, Mary Ann (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]
Colección:Princeton studies in opera.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Mary Ann Smart
  • Through voices, history / Catherine Clément
  • The absent mother in opera seria / Martha Feldman
  • Staging Mozart's women / Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Hunter, Gretchen A. Wheelock
  • The career of Cherubino, or the trouser role grows up / Heather Hadlock
  • Elisabeth's last act / Roger Parker
  • Body and voice in melodrama and opera / Peter Brooks
  • Ulterior motives : Verdi's recurring themes revisited / Mary Ann Smart
  • Mélisande's hair, or the trouble in Allemonde : a postmodern allegory at the Opéra-Comique / Katherine Bergeron
  • Opera : two or three things I know about her / Lawrence Kramer
  • Staging the female body : Richard Strauss's Salome / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D.
  • "Soulless machines" and Steppenwolves : renegotiating masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spielt auf / Joseph Henry Auner
  • "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes / Philip Brett.