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Don ’t be Quiet TIINA ROSENBERG , Don’ ,t be Quiet ESSAYS ON FEMINISM AND PERFORMANCE Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot! Essays on Feminism and Performance Tiina Rosenberg Published by Stockholm University Press Stockholm University SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden www.stockholmuniversitypress.se Text © Tiina Rosenberg 2016 License CC-BY ORCID: Tiina Rosenberg: 0000-0002-7012-2543 Supporting Agency (funding): The Swedish Research Council First published 2016 Cover Illustration: Le nozze di Figaro (W.A. Mozart). Johanna Rudström (Cherubino) and Susanna Stern (Countess Almaviva), Royal Opera, Stockholm, 2015. Photographer: Mats Bäcker. Cover designed by Karl Edqvist, SUP Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics (Online) ISSN: 2002-3227 ISBN (Paperback): 978-91-7635-023-2 ISBN (PDF): 978-91-7635-020-1 ISBN (EPUB): 978-91-7635-021-8 ISBN (Kindle): 978-91-7635-022-5 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/baf This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. 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Editorial Board Staffan Bergwik, Associate Professor of History of Ideas at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Jørgen Bruhn, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies at Linnaeus University in Växjö Elina Druker, Associate Professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Johanna Ethnersson Pontara, Associate Professor of Musicology at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Kristina Fjelkestam, Professor of Gender Studies at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University Malin Hedlin Hayden, Associate Professor of Art History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Christer Johansson (coordination and communication), PhD Literature, Research Officer at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Jacob Lund, Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Culture at the School of Communication and Culture – Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University Catharina Nolin, Associate Professor of Art History at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Ulf Olsson (chairperson), Professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Meike Wagner, Professor of Theatre Studies at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University Titles in the series 1. Rosenberg, Tiina 2016. Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot! Essays on Feminism and Performance. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/baf. License: CC-BY 4.0 Contents Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi PART I: ENVOICING GENDER AND SEXUALITY 1. The Touch of Opera, or, Can A Feminist Forgive Anything for a Good Tune? 3 2. No Questions Asked: Wagnerian Love Ban in Lohengrin 23 3. Who’s Who Underneath the Kimono? Queer Mysteries of M. Butterfly 53 4. Queer Feelings: Zarah Leander, Sentimentality, and the Gay Diva Worship 81 5. The Soundtrack of Revolution: Memory, Affect, and the Power of Protest Songs 101 PART 2: SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS 6. Queer Tintomara: Ephemeral and Elusive Gender(s) in The Queen’s Diadem 119 7. AGAINST LOVE: Nora and Hedda on the Contemporary Scandinavian Stage 151 8. From Here to Eternity: Miss Julie Strikes Back and Refuses to Die 167 PART 3: ON FEMINIST ACTIVIST AESTHETICS 9. Still Angry After All These Years, or Valerie Solanas Under My Skin 177 10. Solidarity Lost and Found. Reflections on Contemporary Feminist Performance 185 vi Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot! 11. Against Tolerance: Thoughts on Contemporary Scandinavian Racism 207 12. Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot! On Feminist Activist Performance 219 Index of Persons 239 Illustrations Cover image: Le nozze di Figaro (W.A. Mozart). Johanna Rudström (Cherubino) and Susanna Stern (Countess Almaviva), Royal Opera, Stockholm, 2015. Photographer: Mats Bäcker. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND, Royal Opera, Stockholm. 1 Le nozze di Figaro (W.A. Mozart). Frida Österberg (Cherubino) and Madeleine Ulrici Jostedt (Countess Almaviva), Folkoperan, Stockholm, 2011. Photographer: Mats Bäcker. Copyright CC-BY- NC-ND: Folkoperan, Stockholm. 2 2 Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss). Malin Byström (Marschallin) and Anna Stéphany (Octavian), Royal Opera, Stockholm, 2015. Photographer: Alexander Kenney. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND, Royal Opera, Stockholm. 6 3 Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss). Anna Stéphany (Octavian) and Elin Rombo (Sophie), Royal Opera, Stockholm, 2015. Photographer: Alexander Kenney. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND, Royal Opera, Stockholm. 8 4 Lohengrin (Richard Wagner). Emma Vetter (Elsa) and Michael Weinius (Lohengrin), Royal Opera, Stockholm, 2012. Photographer: Alexander Kenney. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND, Royal Opera, Stockholm. 22 5 Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini). Asmik Grigorian (Butterfly), Royal Opera, Stockholm, 2014. Photographer: Marcus Gårder. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND, Royal Opera, Stockholm. 52 6 Zarah Leander after a concert at Waldbühne in Berlin, July 1957. Archiv Paul Seiler Berlin, http://www.zarah-leander.de. Photographer: Georg Ebert. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Paul Seiler, Sammlung Seiler Berlin. www.zarah-leander.de 80 7 Guerrillero Heroico. Ernesto Che Guevara at the funeral for vic- tims of the La Coubre explosion, 1960. Photographer: Alberto Diaz Gutierrez (Alberto Korda). Public domain / Museo Che Guevara (Centro de Estudios Che Guevara en La Habana, Cuba). viii Don’t Be Quiet, Start a Riot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillero_Heroico#/media/ File:Heroico1.jpg 100 8 The Queen’s Diadem (Carl Jonas Love Almqvist). Elin Klinga (Tintomara) and Anja Lundquist (Adolfine). Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, 2008. Photographer: Roger Stenberg. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. 118 9 Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen). Sonja Richter (Hedda) and Paprika Steen (Tesman). Betty Nansen Teatret, Copenhagen, 2005. Photographer: Thomas Petri. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Thomas Petri, Betty Nansen Teatret, Copenhagen. 150 10 Alexandra Dahlström rehearsing her role as Alexandra/Julie at The Schoolhouse Theater, Croton Falls, New York. Still from Fia-Stina Sandlund’s filmShe’s Staging It, 2012. Photographer: Marius Dybwad Brandrud. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND. 166 11 Valerie Solanas for President of the United States (Sara Stridsberg). Ingela Olsson (Valerie Solanas) and Noomi Rapace (Cosmogirl). Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, 2006. Photographer: Roger Stenberg. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. 176 12 D Muttant (Maya Hald) and Y Puss (Åse Fougner) perform- ing D Muttant’s Mission in 2005. Photographer: José Figueroa. Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND. 184 13 Makode Linde at a demonstration in support of endangered art- ists and writers at the Kulturhuset City Theatre in Stockholm, 14 February, 2015. Photographer: Frankie Fouganthin. Copyright Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International li- cense, CC-BY-SA. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makode_Linde#/ media/File:Makode_Linde_in_Feb_2015.jpg 206 14 Pussy Riot, Moscow, 2012. Photographer: Igor Mukhin. Copyright Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, CC-BY-SA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Riot#/media/ File:Pussy_Riot_by_Igor_Mukhin.jpg 218 Acknowledgments The author and the publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reproduce copyrighted material in this book: 1. “The Touch of Opera, or, Can a Feminist Forgive Anything for a Good Tune?” Journal of Theatre and Drama, 4 (1998), 23–36. 2. “Kuka on kukin hameen alla? Queer – ja postkolonialistin- en näkökulma M. Butterflyihin” (“Who Is Who Under the Kimono? Queer and Post-Colonial Views on M. Butterfly”). In Dramaturgioita. Näkokulmia draamateoriaan, dram- aturgiaan ja draama-analyysin ongelmiin (Dramaturgies. Perspectives on Drama Theory, Dramaturgy, and Drama Analysis), edited by Heta Reitala and Timo Heinonen, 159–186. Helsinki: Palmenia,