Introduction Philip Purvis 1. Performing Masculinity / Masculinity in Performance Kate Whittaker Part I : Voicing Masculinity 2. Soprano Masculinities Susan McClary 3. Pitch Fever: The Castrato, the Tenor, and the Question of Masculinity in Nineteenth Century Opera Freya Jarman 4. Russian Opera Rebels: Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, Nikolai Figner, and the Rise of the Tenor Antihero Juliet Forshaw 5. The Erotics of Masculinity in Zeffirelli’s Film Otello Marcia J. Citron Part II: Troubling Masculinity 6. Saint-Saëns’s Samson Kevin Kopelson 7. More Cases of Wagner Peter Franklin 8. Britten and the Deadlock of Identity Politics J.P.E. Harper-Scott 9. Troubling Gender and Identity in W.A. Mozart’s Zaide and Chaya Czernowin’s Adama Martin Iddon Part III: Troubled Masculinity 10. Opera’s Unconscious, or What Men Don’t Say Ian Biddle 11. Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man Linda and Michael Hutcheon 12. The ‘Crisis’ of Masculinity in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias Philip Purvis
Biography
Philip Purvis teaches at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, UK.
