| Description |
vi, 301 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Princeton studies in opera
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Princeton studies in opera.
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| Note |
Selected papers from Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera, a conference held Sept. 1995 at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-294) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Women in opera -- Congresses.
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Women in opera. |
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Sex in opera -- Congresses.
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Sex in opera. |
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Feminism and music -- Congresses.
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Feminism and music. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Smart, Mary Ann.
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Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera (1995 : Stony Brook, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
069105813X paperback alkaline paper |
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0691058148 alkaline paper |
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