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

Author: Heller, Wendy, 1955-

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Description386 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : 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 the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.353 ) and index.

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