TY - BOOK AU - Heller,Wendy Beth ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice AV - ML2100 .H45 2003eb U1 - 782.1/082/094531 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Opera KW - Italy KW - Venice KW - 17th century KW - Women in opera KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The emblematic woman -- Bizzarrie femminile : opera and the Accademia degli incogniti -- Didone and the voice of chastity -- 'Disprezzata regina' : woman and empire -- The nymph Calisto and the myth of female pleasure -- Semiramide and the conventions of musical transvestism -- Messalina la meretrice : envoicing the courtesan; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10058567 ER -