Querverlag Falk Rainer / Limbeck Sven - Casta Diva

Casta Diva The opera guide offers articles on around 100 composers and more than 150 works in the operatic repertoire from Claudio Monteverdi's L Orfeo (1607) to Charles Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain (2014): operas created by gay composers or gay librettists; Operas that tell a gay story or in which gay characters appear; Operas in which men disguise themselves as women, in which men then fall in love (and vice versa).

A detailed foreword introduces the more than 400-year history of music theater and its gay admirers, a glossary of technical terms also allows novices an easy access to the world of opera, and a register makes it easier to search for people and their works. As informative as it is enjoyable to read, Casta Diva is the opera guide that not only gay opera fans have always been waiting for.