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En travesti : women, gender subversion, opera
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En travesti : women, gender subversion, opera

Author: Corinne E Blackmer; Patricia Juliana Smith
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1995.
Series: Between men--between women
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Corinne E Blackmer; Patricia Juliana Smith
ISBN: 0231102682 9780231102681 0231102690 9780231102698
OCLC Number: 32589587
Description: vi, 381 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith -- In praise of Brigitte Fassbaender : reflections on diva-worship / Terry Castle -- What are these women doing in opera? / Ralph P. Locke -- I am an opera : identifying with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas / Judith A. Peraino -- Ruggiero's deceptions, Cherubino's distractions / Margaret Reynolds -- Tancredi continues / Hélène Cixous -- The lost voice of Rosine Stoltz / Mary Ann Smart -- Jenny Lind and the voice of America / Lowell Gallagher -- Singing in Greek drag : Gluck, Berlioz, George Eliot / Wendy Bashant -- Gli enigmi sono tre : the [d]evolution of Turandot, lesbian monster / Patricia Juliana Smith -- The lesbian in the opera : desire unmasked in Smyth's Fantasio and Fête galante / Elizabeth Wood -- The ecstasies of Saint Teresa : the saint as queer diva from Crashaw to Four saints in three acts / Corinne E. Blackmer -- Admiring the Countess Geschwitz / Mitchell Morris.
Series Title: Between men--between women
Responsibility: edited by Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith.

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