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100 1 $aHutcheon, Linda,$d1947-
245 10 $aOpera :$bdesire, disease, death /$cLinda Hutcheon
& Michael Hutcheon.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$cc1996.
300 $axvi, 294 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aTexts and contexts ; $vv. 17
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.
[229]-286) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue: "All Concord's Born of Contraries" --
1. Melodies and Maladies: An Introduction -- 2. Famous Last
Breaths: The Tubercular Heroine -- 3. Syphilis, Suffering,
and the Social Order: Richard Wagner's Parsifal -- 4. The
Pox Revisited: The "Pale Spirochete" in Twentieth Century
Opera -- 5. "Acoustic Contagion": Sexuality, Surveillance,
and Epidemics -- 6. Where There's Smoke, There's... --
Epilogue. "Life-and-Death Passions": AIDS and the Stage.
520 $aThis 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.
520 8 $aThe 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 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.
650 0 $aDiseases in opera.
650 0 $aSex in opera.
650 0 $aDeath in opera.
700 1 $aHutcheon, Michael,$d1945-
