So It Works - Blog Sources

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1. FACTORS INFLUENCING OPERA COMPANY TICKETING AND PROGRAMMATIC STRUCTURES

Thesis for Master of Science in Arts Administration at Drexell University

December 2017

By: Brooke N. Brehm

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/190333349.pdf


2. Gender Parity in Opera in Canada

April 2018

http://www.opera.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/opera_brief_on_gender_parity_to_standing_committee_on_canadian_heritage_april_2018.pdf


3. COC in Conversation: Gender & Opera

Digital Roundtable with Audience Q&A on YouTube and Facebook Live

March 5, 2021

Aria Umezawa, Avery Jean Brennan, Jonathan Christopher, Jonah Spungin, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野, Marion Newman and Asitha Tennekoon.

https://www.coc.ca/genderandopera


4. Excluded, Penalized, Indebted, and Harassed: A Study of Systemic Discrimination Against Women in Opera

November 23, 2020

By Zach Finkelstein, Dana Lynne Varga, and Hillary LaBonte

https://theempoweredmusician.com/systemic-discrimination-in-opera/


5. Is opera the most misogynistic art form?

February 26 2016 

By Charlotte Higgins

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/26/is-opera-the-most-misogynistic-art-form


6. What was a castrato? And what did they sound like?

May 1,  2020

By Elizabeth Davis

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/26/is-opera-the-most-misogynistic-art-form


7. Women in Opera: Ever Torn, Lusty And Constrained

October 1, 2013

By Susan Brodie

https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2013/10/01/women-in-opera-ever-torn-lusty-and-constrained/


8. Voicing Gender : Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

2006

By Naomi Adele André

André, Naomi Adele. Voicing Gender : Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera. Bloomington :Indiana University Press, 2006.


9. It’s not over until the soprano dies

January 1, 1989

By Paul Robinson

Lead: Opera, or the Undoing of Women By Catherine Clement.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/03/nnp/clement-undoing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


10. Opera; or, the Envoicing of Women (pp. 225-231)

1993

By Carolyn Abbate 

Abbate, Carolyn. 1993. "Opera: or, the envoicing of women". Musicology and Difference. 225-258.


Special thanks to Camille Rogers for providing sources that aided in the writing of this blog post.