At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows-the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgress…
At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows-the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgress…
Cover -- Half-title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: World War I and Before: Crises of Gender and Theatricality -- 1. Laughing at the Redeemer: Kundry and the Paradox of Parsifal -- 2. Maeterlinck, Debussy, and Mo…