An incisive and impassioned examination of women’s treatment in opera.
Catherine Clément analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas-Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and The Magic Flute-through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera listener.
- ISBN10 0816635269
- ISBN13 9780816635269
- Publish Date 15 June 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English