| Contents |
Kapsberger's Apotheosis ... of Francis Xavier (1622) and the conquering of India / Victor Anand Coelho -- The Italian (Castrato) in London / Todd S. Gilman -- Farinelli's electronic hermaphrodite and the contralto tradition / Felicia Miller -- "O Patria mia": female homosociality and the gendered nation in Bellini's Norma and Verdi's Aida / Patricia Juliana Smith -- Structures of identity and difference in Bizet's Carmen / Susan McClary -- The waters of Prometheus: nationalism and sexuality in Wagner's Ring / Lawrence Kramer -- Constructing the oriental "other": Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila / Ralph P. Locke -- Fictions of the opera box / Ruth A. Solie -- "Eros is in the word": music, homoerotic desire, and the psychopathologies of fascism, or the "strangely fruitful intercourse" of Thomas Mann and Benjamin Britten / Daniel Fischlin -- Imagined communities: postnational Canadian opera / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon -- Mozart and the politics of intimacy: The marriage of Figaro in Toronto, Paris, and New York / Richard Dellamora -- Strange meeting: Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten, Derek Jarman, and the War requiem / Jim Ellis -- Metropolitan opera/suburban identity / Kevin Kopelson -- Divas and disease, mourning and militancy: Diamanda Galas's operatic Plague Mass / Rebecca A. Pope and Susan J. Leonardi. |
| Abstract |
In this significant collection of original essays, preeminent literary and cultural critics, musicologists, and queer theorists delve into the way opera shapes national character through its representations of gender, sexuality, and class. The book includes essays on the works of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and others and examines the impact of such modern phenomena as AIDS. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97019867 |
| ISBN | 023110944X (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231109458 (pbk : alk. paper) |
