Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

vi, 301 p. : ill., music; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Princeton studies in opera

Subject

• Women in opera > Congresses
• Sex in opera > Congresses
• Feminism and music > Congresses

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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

00038500

OCLC

• ocm43790232
• SCSB-1143635

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library