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Männer als Ammen - Frauen als Liebhaber: Cross-gender Casting in der Oper 1600-1800

by Kordula Knaus

English summary: The setting of women's rolls through singing as well as the adoption of masculine parts through female vocalists was a well established practice in the first two centuries of the history of opera. Kordula Knaus analyses this phenomena of cross-gender casting in this volume involving the historical context and sense of awareness. Beginning with the under-representation of women on the opera state in the 17th century the study ranges from the masculine nurses and female singers as youthful lovers to the castrati as prima donnas in the Roman theater and up till the appearance of "trouser rolls" (in which masculine rolls were portrayed by women) in the 18th century. The author addresses the backgrounds of these divisions in casting, the development of stereotypes in cross-gender casting, the musical and representative demands on female and male vocalists as well as the current meaning and perspective of gender.

German description: Die Besetzung von Frauenrollen durch Sänger sowie die Übernahme männlicher Partien durch Sängerinnen war in den ersten beiden Jahrhunderten der Operngeschichte gängige Praxis. Dieses Phänomen des Cross-gender Castings analysiert Kordula Knaus in diesem Band unter Einbeziehung historischer Kontexte und Wahrnehmungsperspektiven.Beginnend bei der Unterrepräsentation von Frauen auf den Opernbühnen im 17. Jahrhundert spannt sie einen Bogen von männlichen Ammen und Sängerinnen als jugendliche Liebhaber über Kastraten als Primadonnen an römischen Theatern bis hin zur Entstehung der Hosenrolle im 18. Jahrhundert. Sie thematisiert die Hintergründe dieser Besetzungsentscheidungen, die Entwicklung von Stereotypen im Cross-gender Casting, die die musikalischen und darstellerischen Anforderungen an Sängerinnen und Sänger sowie die jeweilige Bedeutung und Wahrnehmung von Geschlecht. 261p (Franz Steiner Verlag 2011)

ISBN-13: 978-3-515-09908-0
ISBN-10: 3-515-09908-5

Hardback. Price US $70.00
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