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Tables of Contents for Siren Songs
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
3
14
Mary Ann Smart
Through Voices, History
17
12
Catherine Clement
The Absent Mother in Opera Seria
29
18
Martha Feldman
Staging Mozart's Women
47
20
Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Mary Hunter
Gretchen A. Wheelock
The Career of Cherubino, or the Trouser Role Grows Up
67
26
Heather Hadlock
Elisabeth's Last Act
93
25
Roger Parker
Body and Voice in Melodrama and Opera
118
17
Peter Brooks
Ulterior Motives: Verdi's Recurring Themes Revisited
135
25
Mary Ann Smart
Melisande's Hair, or the Trouble in Allemonde: A Postmodern Allegory at the Opera-Comique
160
26
Katherine Bergeron
Opera: Two or Three Things I Know about Her
186
18
Lawrence Kramer
Staging the Female Body: Richard Strauss's Salome
204
18
Linda Hutcheon
Michael Hutcheon
``Soulless Machines'' and Steppenwolves: Renegotiating Masculinity in Krenek's Jonny spielt auf
222
15
Joseph Henry Auner
``Grimes Is at His Exercise'': Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes
237
14
Philip Brett
Notes
251
44
Index
295