Englund Axel - Deviant Opera Sex Power And Perversion On Stage - Hardcover New Beat Barcode: 886977328824

Barcode: 886977328824

Barcode: 098787161007

Publication Date: 1/29/2010

Artist: Richard Edwards

Yet the book also claims that silences in archives are inevitable and argues not only that recordkeeping should be mandated by international courts and bodies but that we need to develop other ways of reading archives broadly conceived to compensate for absences

Englund Axel - Deviant Opera Sex Power And Perversion On Stage - Hardcover New Beat Barcode: 886977328824Binding: Hardcover Description: The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida Handel's Saracen sorceress performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure hugging rubber dress beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart's peasant girl Zerlina meanwhile is tying up and