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Voicing gender : castrati, travesti, and the second woman in early-nineteenth-century Italian opera /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: André, Naomi Adele
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
Series:Musical meaning and interpretation.
Subjects:
Opera > Italy > 19th century > History and criticism.
Feminism and music.
Heroines in opera.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : hearing voices
  • Sounding voices : modeling voice and the period ear
  • Haunting legacies : the castrato in the nineteenth century
  • Meyerbeer in Italy : the crusader, the castrato, and the disguised second woman
  • Interlude : queens, hybridity, and the diva
  • Taming women's voices : from hero to pageboy
  • Women's voices in motion : voices behind the romantic heroine
  • Coda : looking ahead to Risorgimento heroism.