Siren Songs : : Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera / / ed. by Mary Ann Smart.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allanbrook, Wye Jamison,; Auner, Joseph Henry,; Bergeron, Katherine,; Brett, Philip,; Brooks, Peter,; Clement, Catherine,; Feldman, Martha,; Hadlock, Heather,; Hunter, Mary,; Hutcheon, Linda,; Hutcheon, Michael,; Kramer, Lawrence,; Parker, Roger,; Smart, Mary Ann,; Wheelock, Gretchen A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Smart, Mary Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in Opera ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 32 illus, 7 halftones

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 musicologi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Through Voices, History
• The Absent Mother in Opera Seria
• Staging Mozart's Women
• The Career of Cherubino, or the Trouser Role Grows Up
• Elisabeth's Last Act
• Body and Voice in Melodrama and Opera
• Ulterior Motives: Verdi's Recurring Themes Revisited
• Melisande's Hair, or the Trouble in Allemande: A Postmodern Allegory at the Opera-Comique
• Opera: Two or Three Things I Know about Her
• Staging the Female Body: Richard Strauss's Salome
• "Soulless Machines" and Steppenwolves: Renegotiating Masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spielt auf
• "Grimes Is at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes
• Notes
• Index