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- catalog abstract ""Opera developed during a time when the position of women - evident in their rights and freedoms, in their perceived virtues and vices, and even in how their sexuality was viewed - was under constant debate. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13083688.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Opera developed during a time when the position of women - evident in their rights and freedoms, in their perceived virtues and vices, and even in how their sexuality was viewed - was under constant debate. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-369) and index.".
- catalog description "The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- "Disprezzata regina" : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.".
- catalog extent "xix, 386 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520209338 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Venice".
- catalog spatial "Italy Venice.".
- catalog subject "Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676.".
- catalog subject "ML2100 .H45 2003".
- catalog subject "Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643.".
- catalog subject "Opera 17th century Italy Venice.".
- catalog subject "Opera Italy Venice 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Tarabotti, Arcangela.".
- catalog subject "Women in opera.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- "Disprezzata regina" : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.".
- catalog title "Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.".
- catalog type "text".