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

Contributor Smart, Mary Ann.

Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.

Description301 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

Note: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. - "Souless machines" and Steppenwolves: renegotiating mascuilnity 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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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