Post-Mortem on Isolde
1996; Duke University Press; Issue: 69 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/488610
ISSN1558-1462
Autores Tópico(s)Musicology and Musical Analysis
ResumoIn sport and myth, men and women are segregated in terms of the physical demands made on them. Opera, however, is one area where women will always be vocally equal, if not superior. Brigid Brophy wrote in her wonderful study of Mozart's operas that, without denying the beauty of men's voices or their necessary presence in opera, it is the female voice, and par excellence the soprano, which exerts the most vivid pressure on our imagination.2 In a prominent review of Catherine Clement's book Opera, or the Undoing of Women, Paul Robinson made a similar point:
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