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Opera Culture
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Queen's Throat; Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire by
Wayne Koestenbaum
Overturns
received notions of culture and sexuality to explore the allure of
opera for gay men and to reveal the ways in which opera has served
as a source of gay identity. Why do so
many gay men love opera? What makes an "opera queen"?
What is the connection between gay sexuality and the full-throated
longing that emerges from the diva's mouth? In The Queen's
Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire,
self-proclaimed opera queen Wayne Koestenbaum investigates the
hidden--and unexpected--mysteries that opera and sexuality
produce. At once a personal meditation and an iconoclastic, highly
entertaining survey of divas, The Queen's Throat is
ultimately a profoundly moving, and at times curiously disturbing,
investigation of the intricate interplay between art and
sexuality, between beauty and eroticism. Koestenbaum is not afraid
to challenge, and he more or less grabs readers by the hand to
drag them, with nonstop exuberance, through the ornate, highly
stylized world of diva worship. Traipsing through descriptions of
classic performances, musical autobiographies, personal
recollections, historical notations, and the music itself,
Koestenbaum creates for us the daring, frenzied, disordered,
highly sexual--and ultimately ecstatic--world of the opera queen. --Michael
Bronski
  
BBC Music Magazine
Magazine Description:
BBC Music Magazine is an exciting, informative monthly magazine covering the live, broadcast, and recorded aspects of classical music. Every monthly issue comes with an exclusive CD as do the quarterly special issues, a series expanding major musical genres.
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In this searchable data base you can find
information on 489 composers, 1412 operas in 3565 recordings, 1235
arias in 3240 recordings, and more than 5500 artists.
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parterre box began as a print
magazine in 1993, and a number of very tough critics have agreed
that the 'zine includes some of the most perceptive, most truthful
and funniest opera coverage available anywhere.
parterre box magazine features the
latest news, reviews, opinion, gossip and humor about opera,
including a lot of material that does not appear on parterre.com.
And besides, sales of the 'zine help support the web site.
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OPERA America
serves and strengthens the field of opera by providing a variety
of informational, technical, and administrative resources to the
greater opera community. Its fundamental mission is to promote
opera as exciting and accessible to individuals from all walks of
life.
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House, performance, booking details for over 500 opera houses; artist schedules; reviews, maps, powerful search tools, timelines. In English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese.
A powerful search tool allows you to search the details of over
60,000 opera performances since 1996 by any combination of date,
composer, title, location.
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Resource from Stanford University in California presents an international list of professional and non-professional opera companies.
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This Site has been given Yahoo's Three
Golden Stars as the 2^ Best Opera Site in the world, has won the NBNSoft
Award for its contents, has been chosen by the Chicago
Sun-Times as one of the most noteworthy sites, has been
awarded the Angelo di Raffaello for the Best Sites of
Italy, is recommended by UK OnLine as the best Opera site,
it has received the Study Web Academic Excellence, has been
awarded the Editor's Choice Symbol of Excellence by Look
Smart, the Internet section of Reader's Digest.
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Learn how to properly pronounce the names of well-known operas or composers by listening to this collection of audio clips.
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A light-hearted introduction to opera including information on singers, composers and conductors. Visitors to this comprehensive site can listen to some sound clips and read some synopses and anecdotes.
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