Aficionados of music; dance; opera; and musical theater will relish this volume featuring over 200 articles showcasing composers; singers; musicians; dancers; and choreographers across eras and styles. Read about Hildegard of Bingen; whose Symphonia expressed both spiritual and physical desire for the Virgin Mary; and George Frideric Handel; who not only created roles for castrati but was behind the Venetian operas preoccupations with gender ambiguity. Discover Alban Bergrsquo;s Lulu; operarsquo;s first openly lesbian character. And donrsquo;t forget Kiss Me Kate; the hit 1948 Broadway musical: written by Cole Porter; married though openly gay; directed by John C. Wilson; Noeuml;l Cowards ex-lover; and featuring Harold Lang; who had affairs with Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal. No single volume has ever achieved the breadth of this scholarly yet eminently readable compendium. It includes overviews of genres as well as fascinating biographical entries on hundreds of figures such as Peter Tchaikovsky; Maurice Ravel; Sergei Diaghilev; Bessie Smith; Aaron Copland; Stephen Sondheim; Alvin Ailey; Rufus Wainwright; and Ani DiFranco.
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