Verdi, opera, women / / Susan Rutherford [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Rutherford Susan
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 782.1092
• Soggetto topico: Women in opera; Opera - 19th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue : Verdi and his audience -- War -- Prayer -- Romance -- Sexuality -- Marriage -- Death -- Laughter.
• Sommario/riassunto: Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas of these characters hold for the nineteenth-century female spectator, especially during such a turbulent span in the history of the Italian peninsula? How was opera shaped by society - and was society similarly influenced by opera? Contextualising Verdi's female roles within aspects of women's social, cultural and political history, Susan Rutherford explores the interface between the reality of the spectators' lives and the imaginary of the fictional world before them on the operatic stage.
• Titolo autorizzato: Verdi, opera, women
• ISBN: 1-107-46196-0; 1-139-89368-8; 1-107-45980-X; 1-107-47262-8; 1-107-46545-1; 1-107-46901-5; 1-107-34064-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787648103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in opera.