Composers edit
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Librettists edit
Catherine the Great, Catherine II and opera
Anne Sexton, Transformations (opera)
Singers edit
Impresarios, Managers and administrators edit
Patrons and Spectators edit
Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, La Flora
Images edit
Conductors edit
Directors and stage designers edit
Sources edit
Portayals edit
- depictions
- Harness, Kelley Ann (2002). "Chaste Warriors and Virgin Martyrs in Florentine Musical Spectacle" in Todd Michaël Borgerding (ed.) Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music, pp. 73–122. Routledge. ISBN 0815333943
- Mozart's women
- Title Understanding the women of Mozart's operas
Simpson Book in the Humanities Author Kristi Brown-Montesano Edition illustrated Publisher University of California Press, 2007 ISBN 0520248023
- female characters
- Title Opera, or, The undoing of women
Tauris transformations Author Catherine Clément Edition illustrated, reprint Publisher I.B.Tauris, 1997 ISBN 186064113X
- Images, Clement overview
- Opera and modern culture: Wagner and Strauss
Author Lawrence Kramer Edition illustrated Publisher University of California Press, 2004 ISBN 0520241738
- Images, orientalism, alpine virgins
- Landscape and gender in Italian opera: the Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini
Cambridge studies in opera Author Emanuele Senici Edition illustrated Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN 0521834376
- Women's voices Venice
- Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice
ACLS Humanities E-Book Author Wendy Beth Heller Edition illustrated Publisher University of California Press, 2003 ISBN 0520209338
- Singers and roles early 19th C
- Voicing gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the second woman in early-nineteenth-century Italian opera
Musical meaning and interpretation Musicology Gender Studies Author Naomi Adele André Edition illustrated Publisher Indiana University Press, 2006 ISBN 0253346444
- Images, orientalism
- The exotic woman in nineteenth-century British fiction and culture: a reconsideration
Becoming modern Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies Author Piya Pal-Lapinski Edition illustrated Publisher UPNE, 2005 ISBN 1584654295
Singers edit
- Prima donnas
- Rutherford, Susan (2006). The Prima Donna and Opera 1815-1930. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052185167X
- singers prejudice
- Rosselli, John (1995). Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521426979
Patrons and spectators edit
- patronage
- Harness, Kelley Ann (2006). Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226316599
- Spectators, Quinalt
- Aesthetics of opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785
Cambridge studies in opera Author Downing A. Thomas Edition illustrated Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0521801885
- Spectators , corruption
- Music, sensation, and sensuality
Volume 5 of Garland reference library of the humanities. Critical and cultural musicology Volume 5 of Critical and cultural musicology Author Linda Phyllis Austern Editor Linda Phyllis Austern Edition illustrated Publisher Routledge, 2002 ISBN 0815334214
Composers, librettists edit
- composers
- Letzter, Jacqueline and Adelson, Robert (2001). Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9790520226530
- Composers etc
- Kramarae, Cheris and Spender, Dale (2000). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women:, Volume 3 Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0415920884
- Composers, etc.
- Clark, Linda L. (2008). Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-century Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521650984
Conductors edit
- Fredman, Myer (2003). The Drama of Opera: Exotic and Irrational Entertainment. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 1903900506
Mangers, impresarios edit
- Managers
- Curry, Jane Kathleen (1994). Nineteenth-century American Women Theatre Managers. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 0313291411
Directors, designers edit
- Directors, Motley Theatre Design Group
- Grimes, William (18 May 1993). "Elizabeth Montgomery, 91, Dies; Designed Stage Costumes and Sets", New York Times
- prejudice, directors, Russian & European
- Hutton, Marcelline J. (2001). Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams, Struggles, and Nightmares. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0742510441
Overviews edit
- general theory
- The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music
Oxford Handbooks Author Jane Fulcher Editor Jane Fulcher Edition illustrated Publisher Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 0195341864
- Overview
- Title Viva LA Liberta!: Politics in Opera
Author Anthony Arblaster Edition reprint Publisher Verso, 1997 ISBN 0860916189
- Various
- Operatic migrations: transforming works and crossing boundaries
Authors Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Downing A. Thomas Editors Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Downing A. Thomas Contributor Roberta Montemorra Marvin Edition illustrated Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 ISBN 0754650987
- Various, France 19th C
- Ballet and opera in the age of Giselle
Princeton studies in opera Author Marian Elizabeth Smith Edition illustrated Publisher Princeton University Press, 2000 ISBN 0691049947
Women's History Month edit
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- 1 March 2010 – Kaija Saariaho's opera Émilie premieres at the Opéra de Lyon with Karita Mattila, in the title role.
- 2 March 1961 – Simone Young (pictured), the first woman to conduct at the Vienna State Opera is born in Sydney, Australia.
- 6 March 1853 – Fanny Salvini-Donatelli stars in the world premiere of Verdi's La traviata.
- 16 March 1894 – Sibyl Sanderson sings the title role in the world premiere of Massenet's Thaïs.
- 17 March 1665 – Élisabeth Jacquet, the composer of Céphale et Procris is born in Paris.
- 20 March 1952 – Birgitta Svendén, mezzo-soprano and General Manager of Royal Swedish Opera is born in Porjus, Sweden.
- 23 March 2006 – Sarah Caldwell, American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director dies in Portland, Maine
- 28 March 1911 – Myfanwy Piper, the librettist of Benjamin Britten's operas The Turn of the Screw, Owen Wingrave, and Death in Venice is born in London.