The Queen's Throat

The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire is a 1993 book by American cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum.

The Queen's Throat
AuthorWayne Koestenbaum
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectOpera
Published1993
Media typePrint

Summary

Koestenbaum explores the relationship between gay men and opera, with frequent reference to his own experiences.[1] In particular, he finds a strong identification of the "opera queen" with the "diva."[2] His connection between the two is the voice: he describes it as genderless, and it both allows female singers to become vicarious surrogates for closeted or fearful male listeners, and proves that the body of the opera singer and the queer body are both restrained.[3]

gollark: I mean, people have them but forget to ever use them.
gollark: Really? Reusable water bottles aren't that common as far as I know.
gollark: But do they drink it FROM BOTTLES?
gollark: And the water bottle suggests that it's somewhere where people drink water.
gollark: Also, it implies they don't spend that much on equipment, because fancier schools waste money on big LCDs or bother to line up their projectors.

References

  1. Kopelson, Kevin (Spring 1994). "Tawdrily, I Adore Him". 19th-Century Music. 17 (3): 274–285. doi:10.2307/746570. JSTOR 746570.
  2. Clum, John M. (May 1994). "Opera without Queens/Queens without Opera". Performing Arts Journal. 16 (2): 107–115. doi:10.2307/3245765. JSTOR 3245765.
  3. Hadlock, Heather (November 1993). "Peering Into The Queen's Throat". Cambridge Opera Journal. 5 (3): 265–275. doi:10.1017/s0954586700004067. JSTOR 823809.
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