Kobiety i wojna
Women and War

Summary/Abstract: In writing about operas based on the poetic novels of Ariosto and Torquato Tasso – Alcina and Armida – Natalia Jakubowa concentrates on their stylized gender roles. The author notes that while Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito dismantled stereotypical ways of perceiving the roles of women in their 1998 staging of Alcina, Ivan Alexandre’s staging of Armida and Adrian Noble’s of Alcina only rehash the theme of “feminine weakness” and do not confront how women are typically presented as sources of evil in operas. The author explains that the conservatism and the circumspection exhibited by contemporary directors manifest themselves above all in costume and choreography.

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