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Heather Hadlock
hhadlock@stanford.edu

 

Associate Professor Heather Hadlock studies the ways that music - particularly song and opera - represents, shapes, perpetuates, and challenge cultural ideas about gender. She specializes in French and Italian Romantic music. Her first book was "Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann", a study of an opera based on a collection of German Romantic tales. She has written numerous articles about musical depictions of female characters in literature, including Berlioz's settings of Shakespeare and Faust. She is now writing a book about women playing male roles in Romantic opera, which explores changing attitudes about the proper way to represent masculinity in opera across the nineteenth century; this book focuses on operas by Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Meyerbeer, and Massenet. She teaches courses on women and music; opera; Baroque, Classical, and Romantic music; and "opera on film." She is prone to bursting into song during lectures and seminar discussions, and to lip-syncing musical examples.

 

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