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Wayne Koestenbaum: The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire
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...”-Michael Bronski

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Paul Robinson: Opera, Sex and other vital matters

In Opera, sex and other vital matters, Robinson gathers both classic and never-before-published essays. Diverse and elegant, these essays reaffirm Robinson's gifts as a sly wit, an erudite critic, a writer who revels in the twin joys of music and Eros. Included here are: "Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera," "Fidelio and the French Revolution," "The Opera Queen: A Voice From The Closet," "H. Stuart Hughes and Intellectual History," and others.
Martin Jay, in his blurb on this book, writes: "Happy is the scholar who can devote his intellectual energies entirely to his personal passions: opera, sex and psychoanalysis." These are Robinson's chords.