‎Mark Everist, Jennifer Walker (eds)‎
‎Genre and the Production of Gendered Identity on the Lyric Stage‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: xxii + 317, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 5 tables b/w., 17 music examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503615585.‎

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‎Summary The lyric stage is a cultural site at which constructions of gender have been developed, mitigated and, at times, hindered by musical performance. From the castrati of the seventeenth century to Mozart and Massenet's cross-dressed Cherubinos, musical works created for lyric stages have often complicated traditional and normative readings of the gender and sexual identities of their characters, allowing composers, performers, and audiences to move beyond simple biological understandings of gender and sex. The erotically charged sights and sounds of such productions called into question accepted generic conventions, thus revealing the very instability of normative identity and musical convention that European societies presumed integral to their social codes and generic constructs. The fourteen case studies in this volume explore these topics through various geographical, historical, and musical perspectives: from Italian opera seria to Parisian music-hall ballet and Greek operetta during the interwar years, these essays shed new light on the complex and complementary ways in which gender and the production of gendered identities were invariably contingent upon - but nevertheless moved beyond - the expectations of genre on the lyric stage. TABLE OF CONTENTS Mark Everist and Jennifer Walker, Introduction Gender, Genre, and Gender Crossing Orsolya Gy rf s, Too Soft and Tender : Opera Seria Masculinity and the Case of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito Nicola Badolato, Effeminate Heroes and Female Warriors in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Libretti: Between Cross-Casting and en travesti Luis Antonio Gonz lez Mar n, Women in Men's Costume: Heroic Roles and Female Singers in Hispanic Baroque Lyric Theatre Luc a Mag n Abollo, The Voice of Heroes: Catalina Pacheco or 'la mujer vestida de hombre' in the Eighteenth-century Spanish Theatre (1738-1760) Valeria De Lucca, Norma travestie (1841) and its 'Male Heroines' Gender, Genre, and Eroticism Sarah Gutsche-Miller, Imagined Eroticism: The Art of Suggestion in Parisian Music-Hall Ballet Kimberly Francis, The Sounds of Sex: The French Garment Worker of the Belle poque Jonathan Mallada lvarez, Sexuality and Eroticism at the Teatro Apolo in Madrid (1900-1910) Carl Tertio Druml, Dance Craze and Eroticism: Operetta as a Carrier of Zeitgeist Peter Mondelli, What Use is mile Zola to the Operetta Historian? Reconsidering the Roles of Courtesans on the Operetta Stage Gender, Genre, and Lyric Space Mark Everist, 'Opera' off the Stage: Gender and Genre in op ra de salon Elena Luporini, Do Not Open that Door: Perspectives on Gender in B la Bart k's Bluebeard's Castle Sonja Starkmeth, Taking Centre Stage: 'Chorus Girls' in Late Victorian Popular Musical Theatre Evi Nikita, Women in Greek Operetta between the Wars: Gender, Identity and Sexuality Index of Names‎