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- catalog abstract ""This fascinating book looks at well-known operas in which love, sexual desire, illness, and death are inextricably linked. The result is an unprecedented view of the operas themselves and the societies in which they were created." "The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with female sexuality (as in Verdi's La Traviata and Puccini's La Boheme); the relation between venereal disease and the moral transgression or failure of male heroes (as in Wagner's Parsifal and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress); and the association of cholera and homosexual desire in Berg's Lulu and Britten's Death in Venice. A virtuosic chapter considers how assorted operas have identified smoking with sexuality and rebellion. The conclusion considers parallels between earlier operatic representations of disease and recent cultural and scientific representations of AIDS."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b8123670.
- catalog contributor b8123671.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""This fascinating book looks at well-known operas in which love, sexual desire, illness, and death are inextricably linked. The result is an unprecedented view of the operas themselves and the societies in which they were created." "The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with female sexuality (as in Verdi's La Traviata and Puccini's La Boheme); the relation between venereal disease and the moral transgression or failure of male heroes (as in Wagner's Parsifal and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress); and the association of cholera and homosexual desire in Berg's Lulu and Britten's Death in Venice. A virtuosic chapter considers how assorted operas have identified smoking with sexuality and rebellion. The conclusion considers parallels between earlier operatic representations of disease and recent cultural and scientific representations of AIDS."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: "All Concord's Born of Contraries" -- 1. Melodies and Maladies: An Introduction -- 2. Famous Last Breaths: The Tubercular Heroine -- 3. Syphilis, Suffering, and the Social Order: Richard Wagner's Parsifal -- 4. The Pox Revisited: The "Pale Spirochete" in Twentieth Century Opera -- 5. "Acoustic Contagion": Sexuality, Surveillance, and Epidemics -- 6. Where There's Smoke, There's ... -- Epilogue. "Life-and-Death Passions": AIDS and the Stage.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 294 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Opera.".
- catalog identifier "0803223676 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Opera.".
- catalog isPartOf "Texts and contexts ; v. 17".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Opera.".
- catalog subject "1996 I-903".
- catalog subject "782.1 20".
- catalog subject "Death in opera.".
- catalog subject "Diseases in opera.".
- catalog subject "ML1700 .H87 1996".
- catalog subject "Medicine in Art.".
- catalog subject "Music.".
- catalog subject "Opera Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sex in opera.".
- catalog subject "WZ 330".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: "All Concord's Born of Contraries" -- 1. Melodies and Maladies: An Introduction -- 2. Famous Last Breaths: The Tubercular Heroine -- 3. Syphilis, Suffering, and the Social Order: Richard Wagner's Parsifal -- 4. The Pox Revisited: The "Pale Spirochete" in Twentieth Century Opera -- 5. "Acoustic Contagion": Sexuality, Surveillance, and Epidemics -- 6. Where There's Smoke, There's ... -- Epilogue. "Life-and-Death Passions": AIDS and the Stage.".
- catalog title "Opera : desire, disease, death / Linda Hutcheon & Michael Hutcheon.".
- catalog type "text".