En Travesti addresses the ways in which opera empowers women by challenging conventional gender hierarchies. Terry Castle, Hélène Cixous, Lowell Gallagher and Elizabeth Wood are among the contributors. Includes 20 musical examples.
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Amazon.com Review
Unless you are keenly interested in both opera and gay and lesbian issues (the latter from a highly politicized point of view), you may find this volume more annoying than enlightening. A few of the contributors have good points to make, but most belabor the obvious or even invent issues where none would seem to exist. Still, while the quality of the essays is uneven, there's enough here that those who live and breathe opera will find it at least worth skimming.
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In these 12 interdisciplinary, mostly accessible scholarly essays, opera-loving Engish professors and teachers of women's studies courses tell of their favorite trouser roles in opera, question received notions about historic divas, and more. Lesbian music scholar Judith Peraino identifies herself with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas because it is "Other"?other than "real" opera, that is, because it bore no offspring in English operatic history and was written for girls to perform. "Queer" musicologist Mitchell Morris identifies himself with Countess Geschwitz in Berg's Lulu and speculates about the composer's sexual secrets in frankly gossipy style. A lesbian-oriented companion to Wayne Koestenbaum's The Queen's Throat (LJ 1/93), and the other side of the story told by Catherine Clement's Opera, or the Undoing of Women (Univ. of Minnessota Pr., 1988), this latest volume in Columbia's well-regarded series is recommended for academic collections as well as public libraries serving patrons who seriously love to argue over opera.?Bonnie Jo Dopp, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Rockville, Md.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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