The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing
between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation …

Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics,
musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book …

Why is there all this talk about the Templars and nothing about the Knights of Malta? 1 This
question is left unanswered by Umberto Eco's characters in Foucault's Pendulum, a novel …

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance.
This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera's decisive attribute—voice—as the …

La Clotilde overo la Francia convertita di Coli Lucchese (1686) e la Clotilde di Piccioli
(1688) si collocano ai due estremi del continuum dell'educazione musicale femminile della …

Katherine Arens is a professor of Germanic studies, comparative literature, and women's
and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work centers around Central …

This dissertation looks at three newly composed operas that feature what I call cyber-
narratives: a work in which the story itself is inextricably linked with digital technologies, such …

The Siren topos appears across most genres of Western music of the past three centuries.
Strictly speaking, it may be defined as a conspicuously wide upward leap within a melodic …

Charles Ancillon does not mince words when it comes to “eunuchs,” and in his authoritative
treatise on the subject (see figure 1), he insists that castrated males are typically “awkward,” …

Abstract La Clotilde overo la Francia convertita by Coli Lucchese (1686) and Clotilde by
Piccioli (1688) represent the two extremes of the continuum of female musical education in …