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010 $a95018825 /MN
020 $a0803223676 (cl : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aML1700$b.H87 1996
092 $a782.1$bH97 o6
100 1 $aHutcheon, Linda,$d1947-
245 10 $aOpera :$bdesire, disease, death /$cLinda Hutcheon
& Michael Hutcheon.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska,$cc1996.
300 $axvi, 294 p :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aTexts and contexts$vv.17.
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. The 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.
[229]-286) and index.
650 0 $aSexuality in opera.
650 0 $aDiseases in opera.
650 0 $aOpera$xSocial aspects.
700 1 $aHutcheon, Michael,$d1945-
970 01 $tList of Illustrations
970 01 $tAcknowledgments
970 11 $tPrologue: "All Concord's Born of Contraries"
970 11 $l1$tMelodies and Maladies: An Introduction$p1
970 11 $l2$tFamous Last Breaths: The Tubercular
Heroine$p29
970 11 $l3$tSyphilis, Suffering, and the Social Order:
Richard Wagner's Parsifal$p61
970 11 $l4$tThe Pox Revisited: The "Pale Spirochete" in
Twentieth Century Opera$p95
970 11 $l5$t"Acoustic Contagion": Sexuality, Surveillance,
and Epidemics$p123
970 11 $l6$tWhere There's Smoke, There's...$p161
970 11 $tEpilogue. "Life-and-Death Passions": AIDS and the
Stage$p195
970 01 $tNotes$p229
970 01 $tPhoto Credits$p287
970 01 $tIndex$p289
980 $aLinda Hutcheon is a professor of English and
comparative literature at the University of Toronto.
980 $aMichael Hutcheon, M.D., is an associate professor
of medicine at the University of Toronto.
993 01 $ecnf
997 $boclc
997 $bacas
