Chris Bonds wrote:

>Yes, Shylock does come to mind.  But musically, one could point to more
>subtle stereotypes, even in the verismo school.  The person who is frail,
>gets sick and dies (Mimi') always seems to be a woman.

Lensky in *Eugene Onegin* who dies in a duel, isn't frail or sickly, but
he is gentle and not as macho as his *vis-a-vis*.  And Tristan, seems to
die, not of the wound itself, with which he has managed to live all the
way back to his own land and most of the way into the third act, but of
the heightened emotion on finally seeinghis beloved Isolde again.

>Perhaps others will suggest different examples.  Besides Don Giovanni,
>what males in operas represent evil

Scarpia, Hagen, Iago, Melot, the duke of Mantua, the count di Luna,
Lieutenant Pinkerton....

Walter Meyer