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Author:   Philip Purvis (d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138709409

ISBN 10:   1138709409
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   07 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Philip Purvis 1. Performing Masculinity / Masculinity in Performance Kate Whittaker Part I : Voicing Masculinity 2. Soprano Masculinities Susan McClary 3. Pitch Fever: The Castrato, the Tenor, and the Question of Masculinity in Nineteenth Century Opera Freya Jarman 4. Russian Opera Rebels: Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, Nikolai Figner, and the Rise of the Tenor Antihero Juliet Forshaw 5. Enrico Caruso: Operatic-Phonographic Crooner Karen Henson 6. The Erotics of Masculinity in Zeffirelli’s Film Otello Marcia J. Citron Part II: Troubling Masculinity 7. Saint-Saëns’s Samson Kevin Kopelson 8. More Cases of Wagner Peter Franklin 9. Britten and the Deadlock of Identity Politics J.P.E. Harper-Scott 10. Troubling Gender and Identity in W.A. Mozart’s Zaide and Chaya Czernowin’s Adama Martin Iddon Part III: Troubled Masculinity 11. Opera’s Unconscious, or What Men Don’t Say Ian Biddle 12. Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man Linda and Michael Hutcheon 13. The ‘Crisis’ of Masculinity in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias Philip Purvis

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Philip Purvis teaches at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, UK.

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