Opera, Or, The Undoing of WomenCatherine Clement analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas -- Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and Magic Flute -- through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera listener. |
Contents
Prima Donnas or the Circus of Women | 24 |
Dead Women | 43 |
Family Affairs or the Parents Terribles | 60 |
The Girls Who Leap into Space | 78 |
Furies and Gods or Wanings of the Moon | 96 |
Madmen Negroes Jesters or the Heroes of Deception | 118 |
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Alberich arms beautiful beginning body bourgeois Brunhilde Butterfly Carmen child Christine Daaé Clément comes dark daughter dead death defeated desire Die Walküre divine Don Giovanni donna dream duet Eugene Onegin everything eyes Falstaff fantasy father feminine finally forget Fricka girl gives gods goes Golaud gold Götterdämmerung Hagen happiness heart hero heroines hysterics incest Isolde kill king La Bohème Listen living Loge longer look lost lover magic Magic Flute Maria Callas Mario married Mélisande melody Mimi mother myth never night Norma opera Otello Pamina Pelléas play prima donna princess Puccini queen Rhine ring Sachs says Scarpia scene seduced Siegfried Sieglinde Siegmund sings sleep song sorceress spear stage story sublime surrounding takes Tamino Tatiana tells thing Tosca Tristan Tristan und Isolde Turandot unconscious Verdi Violetta voice Wagner waltzes wants woman women words Wotan young