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Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies a light touch as he considers the topic of opera and the eroticized Why do audiences respond to opera in a visceral way? How does opera, like no other art form, physically move watchers? How and why does opera arouse feelings akin to sexual desire? Abel seeks the answers to these questions by examining homoerotic desire, the phenomenon of the castrati, operatic cross-dressing, and opera as presented through the media.In this deeply personal book, Abel writes, These pages map my current struggles to pin down my passion for opera, my intense admiration for its aesthetic forms and beauties, but much more my astonishment at how opera makes me lose myself, how it consumes me. In so doing, Abel uncovers what until now, through dry musicology and gossipy history, had been left behind a wall of the physical and erotic nature of opera. Although Abel can speak with certainty only about his own visceral response to opera, he provides readers

Author

Samuel D. Abel

Publisher

Westview Pr (Trd Pap); Westview Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813329017

Subjects

Music, Arts