Research Catalog

Title

En travesti : women, gender subversion, opera / edited by Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blackmer, Corinne E.
• Smith, Patricia Juliana.

Description

vi, 381 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Between men--between women

Subjects

• Women in opera
• Lesbianism in opera

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Stolz / 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.

Call Number

JME 95-609

ISBN

• 0231102682 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231102690 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95019594

OCLC

• 32589587
• NYPG04-B74

Title

En travesti : women, gender subversion, opera / edited by Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith.

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press, 1995.

Series

Between men--between women

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Blackmer, Corinne E.

Smith, Patricia Juliana.

Research Call Number

JME 95-609