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Siren songs : representations of gender and sexuality in opera

Title: Siren songs : representations of gender and sexuality in opera / edited by Mary Ann Smart.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.

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Description

vi, 301 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Princeton studies in opera

Subject

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 (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

Call Number

JME 00-972

ISBN

0691058148 (alk. paper)
069105813X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00038500

OCLC

43790232

Title

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

Imprint

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.

Series

Princeton studies in opera

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-294) and index.

Added Author

Smart, Mary Ann.

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera (1995 : Stony Brook, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

JME 00-972

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