Who desires to be inside? Is the outsider willful or relegated? Is embracing one’s outside status, as a woman, as a queer, as a BIPoC person, as disabled, as a nonhuman animal?Read more ›
Males at the Opera. Eccentric Subjects in Benjamin Britten’s Theatre is a powerful essay that highlights the extent to which Britten’s theatre asks questions about gender and sexual identityRead more ›
Stripping off back in the day in Rome. Cinema, paparazzi, and censorship in 1950s Italy. From journalist Alberto Piccinini.
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Dominic Pettman writes about eroticism, libido and sexuality in the time of the Internet, smartphones and social media. An analysis on how the act of seduction today passes through the gaze of technologyRead more ›
Verena Andermatt Conley questions what today’s man would ask from Mephistopheles. Between destructive capitalism and the desire for immateriality, here is the Faust that moves in the time of new digital technologies Read more ›
Overcoming human finitude between operatic performance and librettos: from La Fura dels Baus’s stage directions to Marina Abramović’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2020), an in-depth look at the relationship between opera and Faustian myth Read more ›
Female Deaths as a cliché in Opera: Alexandra Wilson takes us through a portrait and analysis of Giacomo Puccini’s compositions and his relationship with female figures, in life and in the operaRead more ›
A new translation recently published in Italy by Meltemi provides a fine opportunity to rediscover the work of this by no means conventional American intellectual who made the history of feminismRead more ›
Not just Otello, Aida and Carmen: Giuliano Danieli’s column for Caliban offers an overview of musicological studies on the relationship between opera history and exoticism, racism and machismoRead more ›
What is ‘blackface’? A term virtually unknown in Italy until recently, it is related to minstrel shows. Author Neelam Srivastava traces its history and issues in the world of OperaRead more ›
