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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wendy Heller |
ISBN: | 0520209338 9780520209336 |
OCLC Number: | 51566365 |
Language Note: | Mainly in English; with some Italian, and parallel texts in Italian with English translations. |
Description: | xix, 386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie feminile : 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 musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan. |
Responsibility: | Wendy Heller. |
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Abstract:
Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire.
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