Emblems of eloquence [electronic resource] : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / Wendy Heller.
By: Heller, Wendy Beth.
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BookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003Description: xix, 386 p. cm.Subject(s): Opera -- Italy -- Venice -- 17th century | Women in operaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 782.1/082/094531 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references and index.
The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
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