
Music in the Baroque
Wendy Heller, Walter Frisch
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Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice
by Wendy Heller
University of California Press
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Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage.
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