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Author Heller, Wendy, 1955-

Title Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML1733.2 .H45 E5 2003    Available  ---
Description xix, 386 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-369) and index.
Contents The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie feminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
Subject Opera -- Italy -- Venice -- 17th century.
Opera.
Italy -- Venice.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Women in opera.
Women in opera.
Opera's.
ISBN 0520209338 alkaline paper
9780520209336 alkaline paper

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