Voicing gender
Subtitle: castrati, travesti, and the second woman in early-nineteenth-century Italian opera
By: Naomi André.
Series: Musical meaning and interpretation
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Opera -- Italy -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Feminism and music; Heroines in opera
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : hearing voices; title: Sounding voices : modeling voice and the period ear; title: Haunting legacies : the castrato in the nineteenth century; title: Meyerbeer in Italy : the crusader, the castrato, and the disguised second woman; title: Interlude : queens, hybridity, and the diva; title: Taming women's voices : from hero to pageboy; title: Women's voices in motion : voices behind the romantic heroine; title: Coda : looking ahead to risorgimento heroism.