Introduction
Chapter 1: Antiquity
Chapter 2: Passing and Coding
Chapter 3: The Closet
Chapter 4: Hegemony
Chapter 5: Assimilation
Chapter 6: Killing Queers
Chapter 7: Homoerotic Awakening
Conclusion
References
About the Author
Andrew Sutherland is director of music at Methodist Ladies’ College and adjunct lecturer at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Queer Opera is a meaningful and necessary text, providing
perspectives worthy of consideration by all who love opera and wish
to see it thrive.
Queer Opera makes an important contribution to the evolving
understanding of what opera can be for audiences today. It tackles
complex issues of identity, behaviour, intention, and
interpretation in operas both historic and contemporary.
Acknowledging the complex relationship of opera and queerness
throughout history, the book examines a wide range of works through
a queer lens, and in doing so, offers up fresh insights into opera
more generally.
Sutherland, [can] be commended on many fronts. He has certainly
done his homework. He considers over fifty operas from the Baroque
to the present day. He does not set his sights on just the big
names but includes several operas by contemporary composers whose
names are hardly household words. He is scrupulous about including
lesbian composers and gives commendable attention to operas with
lesbian, bisexual, and trans characters. Along the way, he peppers
his discussions with fascinating tidbits of information. This is
hardly the first book to examine queer opera. A check of my local
university library under the subject heading "Homosexuality in
opera" produced 153 hits--books, dissertations, articles. Still,
Sutherland's study may be one of the first to embrace a wider,
"queer" compass.
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