[AMS-announce] ANNOUNCEMENT: Opera and Gendered Voices in Early Modern Europe, Folger Library Seminar, fall 2007

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Opera and Gendered Voices in Early Modern Europe

A Fall Semester Seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, 
DC

Directed by Wendy Heller (Princeton University) 

With its union of spectacle, poetry, and music, early modern opera  
provides a rich repository of ideas about the voice and body that lends  
itself to study from multi-disciplinary perspectives. This seminar will  
examine the many ways in which opera absorbed, expressed, and influenced  
gender ideologies in early modern Europe... (see the web site for full description)

Director: Wendy Heller is Associate Professor at Princeton University  
and Director of the Program in Italian Studies. Emblems of Eloquence:  
Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice (2003) is among  
her many publications. She is currently writing a book on the reception  
of antiquity in Baroque Opera.

Schedule: Thursdays, 1 - 4:30 p.m., 27 September through 13 December  
2007, except 1 November and 22 November.

Application Deadlines: 4 June 2007 for admission (and grants-in-aid for  
Folger Institute affiliates); 4 September 2007 for admission only.

Visit www.folger.edu/institute for application guidelines and a link to our  
online application form. Contact institute at folger.edu with any  
questions.