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The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire Book

In this book self-proclaimed opera queen Wayne Koestenbaun investigates the hidden - and unexpected - mysteries that opera and sexuality produce. At once a personal meditation and an iconoclastic survey of divas the book is an investigation of the intricate interplay between art and sexuality.Read More

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    Why do so many gay men love opera? What makes an "opera queen"? What is the connection between gay sexuality and the full-throated longing that emerges from the diva's mouth? In The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, self-proclaimed opera queen Wayne Koestenbaum investigates the hidden--and unexpected--mysteries that opera and sexuality produce. At once a personal meditation and an iconoclastic, highly entertaining survey of divas, The Queen's Throat is ultimately a profoundly moving, and at times curiously disturbing, investigation of the intricate interplay between art and sexuality, between beauty and eroticism. Koestenbaum is not afraid to challenge, and he more or less grabs readers by the hand to drag them, with nonstop exuberance, through the ornate, highly stylized world of diva worship. Traipsing through descriptions of classic performances, musical autobiographies, personal recollections, historical notations, and the music itself, Koestenbaum creates for us the daring, frenzied, disordered, highly sexual--and ultimately ecstatic--world of the opera queen. --Michael Bronski

  • Product Description

    "Brilliant. . . The Queen's Throat is a dazzling performance."-New York Times Book Review This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism, subversion, and homage, Wayne Koestenbaum illuminates mysteries of fandom and obsession, and has created an exuberant work of personal meditation and cultural history.

  • 0306810085
  • 9780306810084
  • Wayne Koestenbaum
  • 15 March 2001
  • Da Capo Press Inc
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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