Smart Siren Songs

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6671-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Opera

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Smart, Mary Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowlegments vii

Introduction by Mary Ann Swart 3

Through Voices, History by Catht~riuc Clement 17

The Absent Mother in Oprah Seria by Martha Feldman 29

Staging Mozart's Women by Wye Jamison Allanbrook, Mary Hunter, Gretchen A. Wheelock 47

The Career of Cherubino, Or the Trouser Role Grows Up by Heather Hadlock 67

Elisabeth's Last Act by Roger Parker 93

Body and Voice in Melodrama and Opera by Peter Brooks 118

Ulterior Motives: Verdi's Recurring Themes Revisited by Mary Ann Smart 135

Melisande's Hair, or the Trouble in Allemonde: A Postmodern Allegory at the Opera-Comique by Katherine Bergeron 160

Opera: Two or Three Things I Know about Her by Lawrence Kramer 186

Staging the Female Body: Richard Strauss's Salome by Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D. 204

"Soulless Machines" and Steppenwolves: Renegotiating Masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spiel auf~ by Joseph HHenry Auner 222

"Grimes Ia at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes by Phillip Brett 237

Notes 251

Indexs 295

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Ann Smart is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of the critical edition of Donizetti's Dom Sébastien (to appear in L'edizione critica delle opere di Gaetano Donizetti) and, with Roger Parker, of Reading Critics Reading: Criticism of French Opera from the Revolution to 1848. She is also a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and the Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (forthcoming).