Cambridge Opera Journal: Volume 10 -

Grieving in the mirrors of Verdi's Willow Song: Desdemona, Barbara and a ‘feeble, strange voice’
Brooks Toliver
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27 August 2008, pp. 289-305
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When ‘la mesta’ (the sad one) intones ‘Salce!’ from the lonely heath within the Willow Song, she creates a situation at once compelling and artificial — a song within a song within an opera:

Response to James Treadwell
David J. Levin
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27 August 2008, pp. 307-311
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James Treadwell's perceptive and suggestive discussion raises a number of important questions that I am eager to engage. And while Treadwell was rethinking some of my arguments, the Met has unveiled a production of Lohengrin (directed by Robert Wilson) that challenges some of my claims about the Met's steadfast conservatism, especially when it comes to staging Wagner. So I am grateful for the opportunity to rethink some of my original claims and buttress a few as well.

Jeremy Tambling: Opera and the Culture of Fascism. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1996, 274 pp.
H. Marshall Leicester, Jr
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27 August 2008, pp. 111-126
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