Emblems of eloquence opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice /
Heller, Wendy Beth.
Emblems of eloquence opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / [electronic resource] : Wendy Heller. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xix, 386 p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Opera--Italy--Venice--17th century.
Women in opera.
Electronic books.
ML2100 / .H45 2003
782.1/082/094531
Emblems of eloquence opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice / [electronic resource] : Wendy Heller. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xix, 386 p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Opera--Italy--Venice--17th century.
Women in opera.
Electronic books.
ML2100 / .H45 2003
782.1/082/094531