Mary Ann Smart is Associate Professor in the Music Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera (2000) and coeditor of Reading Critics Reading: Opera and Ballet Criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848 (2001).
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Mary Ann Smart: Mimomania
When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner ‚the most enthusiastic mimomaniac‘ ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagan …
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Wye Jamison Allanbrook: The Secular Commedia
Wye Jamison Allanbrook’s The Secular Commedia is a stimulating and original rethinking of the music of the late eighteenth century. Hearing the symphonies and concertos of Haydn and Mozart with an ea …
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Mary Ann Smart: Waiting for Verdi
The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories w …
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Mary Ann Smart: Siren Songs
It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come wit …
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