Opera in the Flesh: Sexuality in Operatic Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367297411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Sam Abel

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Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera.

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Preface -- Opera and the Body -- Embodying Opera -- The Paradox of the Fat Lady -- Opera and Desire -- Opera, Seduction, and Desire -- Desire and the Singer–s Body -- Opera and Homoerotic Desire -- Opera and Sex -- Operatic Orgasms -- Opera, Sex, and Power -- Sexual Transgression in Opera -- Means and Ends -- The Castrati and the Erotics of Vocal Excess -- Women-as-Men in Opera -- Opera Through the Media -- The End of Opera

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Sam Abel is assistant professor of drama at Dartmouth College.