The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the eagerly-awaited study by
the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female …

In mid seventeenth-century Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing
rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercial operas were elaborate …

Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms,
their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly …

On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's
Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad …

In the German states in the late eighteenth century, women flourished as musical performers
and composers, their achievements measuring the progress of culture and society from …

This essay considers opera's use of a particular history in seventeenth-century Venice:
Cornelius Tacitus's Annals of the Roman Empire as transformed in Monteverdi's and …

The most important figure of seventeenth-century Neapolitan music, Francesco Provenzale
(1624-1704) spent his long life in the service of a number of Neapolitan conservatories and …

During the seventeenth century, the growth of opera created the need for a large number of
artists to perform in theatres throughout Italy and, increasingly, in much of Europe. The …

Per l'entità, la regolarità e la qualità della sua produzione, Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) è
senza dubbio figura dominante per i primi trent'anni del teatro d'opera veneziano. La …

Suzanne Cusick has recently argued that the musical processes of Monteverdi's Lamento
d'Arianna purge Ariadne of passion and desire in order symbolically to make her a good …