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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154331603321

Titolo

The arts of the prima donna in the long nineteenth century

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

782.1082

Soggetti

Opera - 19th century

Women singers - 20th century

Singers

Opera

Music

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Music History & Criticism, Vocal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narrative of 19th and early 20th century opera. This book shines a light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled doomed women onstage before an audience.