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Opéra

Catherine Clément

1988198 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1988
first published
  • 1988University of Minnesota Press · 201 pages · ENGISBN 9780816616534
  • 1989Virago · 201 pages · ENGISBN 9781853810213
  • 1997I.B. Tauris · 198 pages · ENG

Catherine Clément analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas--Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and The Magic Flute--through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera listener. --Publisher description.

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