Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice (Adobe Reader) ebook download Wendy Heller

Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice

Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated. 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 engaging 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. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts-by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus-form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).

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Title of ebook: Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice
ISBN: 9780520919341
parent-ISBN: 9780520209336
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 4558 kb
Published: 01-2004
Released online for download: 01-12-2004
Author of eBook: Heller, Wendy

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