Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520343252ISBN-10:520343255UPC:9780520343252Book Category:Music, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Theater, Human SexualityBook Topic:Opera, Stagecraft & ScenographySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCFTA4QHG3
Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage
The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel's Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart's peasant girl...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520343252ISBN-10:520343255UPC:9780520343252Book Category:Music, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, Theater, Human SexualityBook Topic:Opera, Stagecraft & ScenographySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCFTA4QHG3
Axel Englund is Professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, and author of Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan.
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