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Queer opera / Andrew Sutherland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sutherland, Andrew (Musician), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality in opera.
- Opera.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- Queer Opera explores narratives and music of selected operas to argue that composers have turned to opera to underscore lived queer experiences and that they have served as agents for change.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- What Makes an Opera Queer?
- Apollo and Dionysus
- Feminist Theory to Queer Theory
- Houses of Homosocialization
- Coda
- Notes
- Chapter 1: Antiquity
- David et Jonathas, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Iphigénie en Tauride, Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Astarté, Xavier Leroux
- Young Caesar, Lou Harrison
- Pleasure, Mark Simpson
- Hadrian, Rufus Wainwright
- Pomegranate, Kye Marshall
- Chapter 2: Passing and Coding
- Dalibor, Bedřich Smetana
- Salome, Richard Strauss
- Billy Budd, Benjamin Britten
- The Turn of the Screw, Benjamin Britten
- 27, Ricky Ian Gordon
- Fellow Travelers, Gregory Spears
- Chapter 3: The Closet
- Angels in America, Peter Eötvös
- When the Sun Comes Out, Leslie Uyeda
- Brokeback Mountain, Charles Wuorinen
- Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), Hèctor Parra
- Chapter 4: Hegemony
- Before Night Falls, Jorge Martín
- Oscar, Theodore Morrison
- As One, Laura Kaminsky
- Stonewall, Iain Bell
- The Stonewall Operas
- Nightlife, T. J. Rubin
- Outside, Bryan Blaskie
- The Pomada Inn, Brian Cavanagh-Strong
- The Community, Kevin Cummines
- Orlando, Olga Neuwirth
- Chapter 5: Assimilation
- Bomarzo, Alberto Ginastera
- Death in Venice, Benjamin Britten
- A Quiet Place, Leonard Bernstein
- Sweets by Kate, Griffin Candey
- Heartbreak Express, George Lam
- Three Way, Robert Paterson
- Chapter 6: Killing Queers
- Elektra, Richard Strauss
- Lulu, Alban Berg
- Two Boys, Nico Muhly
- Not in My Town, Michael W. Ross
- Les Feluettes (Lilies), Kevin March
- Lessons in Love and Violence, George Benjamin
- Harvey Milk, Stewart Wallace
- The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, Justine F. Chen
- Notes.
- Chapter 7: Homoerotic Awakening
- Król Roger (King Roger), Karol Szymanowski
- The Knot Garden, Michael Tippett
- Patience and Sarah, Paula M. Kimper
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Gerald Barry
- The Impossible She, Daniel Thomas Davis
- Conclusion
- Why LGBTQI+?
- More Queers and Operas
- References
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-2382-2
- 1-66690-608-5
- OCLC:
- 1374428162
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