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Title: Opera: The Undoing of Women by Catherine Clement, Betsy Wing ISBN: 0-8166-3526-9 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Veritably a rethinking of women's demise in opera, 7 stars
Comment: What has Opera done to Women? is the focus of Clement's thougths, short essays on the oppressive emotive cauldron Divas inhabit. The world of Opera scholarship is only (within the last ten years) has seen the vigours of social and political perspectives discussed. Writers like Susan McClary, Linda Hutcheon,Tom Sutchliffe,and Anthony Arblaster have deeply thought works scouring the social dimensions of Opera left unattended since its inception. Clement brings a wealth of intellectual sensibilities as well, a Lacanian, feminist who traverses inside the singers mind while she is singing it seems. And saying, "this is not a nice place to sing." And what does Opera grant it's women always fated for death and domesitication,or prison . Clement's readings traverse the traditional operatic repertoire giving you the opera's narrative as she comments and reflects. The section "Tetralogy of the Ring" incites the chauvinistic world of Wagner,how all gods have power, but the Man-Gods can strip the Woman-Gods of their power when they choose to rebel, as Wotan does to Brunnhilde in Wagner's "Die Walkure" in the "Ring". Songs of Lunatics is what women in opera potray as in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" Girls who leap into space, Tosca and Melisande. Or in Bizet's "Carmen" who has no fixed place, her lightness is always in darkness away from lechery and exploitation. You will feel Clement's compassion for Opera's oppressed cadre,and her wrath in speaking of opera's deeply prejudiced phallocentricism. Indeed this has been the most profound book on opera. It makes you rethink all you have ever known, or didn't know on this most cloistered self-preserved realm of music drama. I had wished Clement had ventured into this century for there are profound examples of positive even rebellious roles of women, as in Alexander Goehr's "Behold The Sun" set in Anabaptist Germany of the 1500's, or Luigi Nono's "Like a Burgeoning Light of Love" with a text by Louise Michel ,where three women visit the war fields of this century and comment.
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Title: Siren Songs by Mary Ann Smart ISBN: 069105813X Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters by Paul A. Robinson ISBN: 0226721833 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Unsung Voices by Carolyn Abbate ISBN: 0691026084 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: In Search of Opera (Princeton Studies in Opera) by Carolyn Abbate ISBN: 0691117314 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 11 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Opera: Desire, Disease, Death by Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon ISBN: 0803273185 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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