En travesti
Subtitle: women, gender subversion, opera
By: edited by Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith
Contributors: Smith, Patricia Juliana; Blackmer, Corinne E
Series: Between men--between women
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Lesbianism in opera.; Women in opera.
Notes: 3
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Corinne E. Blackmer and Patrica Juliana Smith; value: In praise of Brigette Fassbaender: Reflections on diva-worship / Terry Castle; value: What are these women doing in opera? / Ralph P. Locke; value: I am an opera: Identifying with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas / Judith A. Peraino; value: Ruffiero's deceptions, Cherubino's Distractions / Margaret Reynolds; value: Tancredi continues / Hélène Cixous; value: The lost coice of Rosine Stolz / Mary Ann Smart; value: Jenny Lind and the voice of America / Lowell Gallagher; value: Singing in Greek drag: Gluck, Berlioz, George Eliot / Wendy Bashant; value: Gli Enigmi Sono Tre: The [D]evolution of Turandot, lesbian monster / Patricia Juliana Smith; value: the lesbian in the opera: Desire nmasked in Smyth's Fantasio and Fête Galance / Elizabeth Wood.