Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in OperaMary Ann Smart Princeton University Press, 5.11.2000 г. - 301 страници It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. |
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... desire their sacrifices . What might be described as a " first wave " of feminist opera criticism re- sponded to Clement by way of the problem identified so forcefullly by McClary : how to draw operatic music into feminist ...
... Poizat has merged the opposing forces in a Lacan - inspired theory that sees the entire history of opera as a quest to recapture the pure primal cry uttered before the infant is imprinted with language and with specific desires 6 SMART.
... desires . For Poizat , the impulse toward the soprano's death in nineteenth- and twentieth- century operas is really an impulse toward the inarticulate cry often uttered by these heroines at the moment of death . 12 As Gary Tomlinson ...
... desire to fuse with the diva's body recalls Barthes's description of La Zambinella's voice , but proposes a radically dif- ferent view of how a body can mean and consequently of how one might write about opera : Her voice enters me ...
... desires of late - twentieth - century spectators to see these women as believable and sympathetic characters , perhaps even as role models . Mary Hunter and Gretchen Wheelock show how Konstanze's ex- treme coloratura in Die Entfuhrung ...
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Through Voices History | 17 |
The Absent Mother in Opera Seria | 29 |
Staging Mozarts Women | 47 |
The Career of Cherubino or the Trouser Role Grows Up | 67 |
Elisabeths Last Act | 93 |
Body and Voice in Melodrama and Opera | 118 |
VERDIS RECURRING THEMES REVISITED | 135 |
A POSTMODERN ALLEGORY AT THE OPÉRACOMIQUE | 160 |
TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER | 184 |
RICHARD STRAUSSS SALOME | 202 |
RENEGOTIATING MASCULINITY IN KRENEKS JONNY SPIELT AUF | 220 |
SEX POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN THE LIBRETTOS OF PETER GRIMES | 235 |
Notes | 249 |
Index | 293 |