Gender, Sexuality and Eroticism on the Lyric Stage

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Keynotes

Mark Everist – ‘Opera’ off the Stage: Gender and Genre in «opéra de salon»

Annegret Fauser – Gender, Age, and Sexuality: Performing the Moral on the Musical Stage

Eroticism and Sexuality in 19th- and 20th-Century Operetta

Peter Mondelli – Bordenave’s Brothel, or, What Use is Émile Zola to the Operetta Historian?

Sandrine Divanac’h – « Bonheur enivrant, plaisir bien doux » : Oh, M. Hervé !

Carl Tertio Druml – Dance Craze and Eroticism: Operetta as a Carrier of Zeitgeist

Evi Nikita – La Femme au sein de l’opérette grecque de l’entre-deux-guerres : genre, identité et sexualité à travers les libretti des œuvres de l’époque

Career Paths for Singers on the Lyric Stage: Male and Female

Nicola Badolato – Eroi effeminati e amanti guerriere nella librettistica veneziana tra Sei e Settecento tra «cross-casting» e specializzazione dei ruoli «en travesti»

Ruhama Santorsa – Il corpo femminile nel «genere non genere» della farsa (Venezia, xviii secolo)

Luis Antonio González Marín – Women in Men’s Costume: Why Hero Roles Were Played by Female Singers in Hispanic Baroque Lyric Theatre

Lucía Magán Abollo – Catalina Pacheco: un’attrice-cantante vestita da uomo nei teatri madrileni nella metà del Settecento

Criticism and Reception

Jennifer Walker – ‘Feminine’ Charm, ‘Masculine’ Republic: Jules Massenet and the Paradox of Gendered Reception

Martin Barré – « Ah ! Je n’ose pas ». Les chanteuses et la peur de la scène sous la Monarchie de Juillet

Jonathan Mallada Álvarez – Sexualité et érotisme dans le théâtre lyrique espagnol : Une étude de la sensualité scénique à travers l’analyse de la réception critique des premières représentations au théâtre Apolo de Madrid (1900-1910)

Agata Kochanowska – Richard Wagners «Tannhäuser» by Tobias Kratzer: The Destroying Power of Desire

Mozart and Rossini: Sexuality, Gender and Vocality

Orsolya Gyárfás – «Too Soft and Tender»: The Construction and Reception of Sesto in Mozart’s «La clemenza di Tito»

Carla Gallardo – «Il barbiere di Siviglia» (1816): Characterisation and Sexualisation of Rosina

Maria Birbili – Cross-dressing «en travesti»: Gender Ambiguity, Sexuality, and Vocality in 18th- and 19th-Century Opera: From Mozart to Rossini

Eroticism, Gender and Sexuality in 19th-Century Popular Theatre

Sarah Gutsche-Miller – Imagined Eroticism: The Art of Suggestion in Parisian Music-Hall Ballet

Sonja Jüschke – Taking Centre Stage: ‘Chorus Girls’ in Late Victorian Popular Musical Theatre

Filipe Gaspar – «The French Mermaids Were Loudly Applauded…»: Feminine Subjects and Male Desire in Lisbon’s Café- Concert (1857-1876)

Eroticism, Gender and Sexuality in 20th-Century Opera

Ewelina Czarnowska – Eroticism and Spirituality in Karol Szymanowski’s «Król Roger»

Ondrej Gima – «The Little of Divine but Tons of the Orgasmic»: «The Fiery Angel» – Serge Prokofiev

Elena Luporini – Non aprire quella porta. Prospettive di genere nel «Castello di Barbablù» di Béla Bartók

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