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Title Siren songs : representations of gender and sexuality in opera / edited by Mary Ann Smart.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 301 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Princeton studies in opera
Princeton studies in opera.
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.
Summary 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 musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with effor.
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Subject Women in opera -- Congresses.
Women in opera.
Sex in opera -- Congresses.
Sex in opera.
Feminism and music -- Congresses.
Feminism and music.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Smart, Mary Ann, editor.
Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera (1995 : Stony Brook, N.Y.)
Other Form: Print version: Siren songs 0691058148 (DLC) 00038500 (OCoLC)43790232
ISBN 9781400866717 electronic book
1400866715 electronic book
0691058148
9780691058146
069105813X
9780691058139