Opera: Desire, Disease, Death
by Michael Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon
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"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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Linda Hutcheon is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English, and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, Canada. Siobhan O'flynn is Senior Lecturer in the Canadian Studies of Toronto, Canada, and Adjunct Graduate Faculty in the OCADU/CFC Media Lab Digital Futures Masters Program at the Canadian Film Centre's Media Lab.
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Texts and Contexts (`17)
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- Opera: Desire, Disease, Death
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- Music, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, History
- DDC/MDS
- 782.1 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Operas and related dramatic vocal forms; concert versions
- LCC
- ML1700 .H87 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Vocal music
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