Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / by Heller, Wendy Beth

Table of Contents: “…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.…”

Emblems of eloquence : opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / by Heller, Wendy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…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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