Rachel (Hrsg.) Cowgill

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And for contemporary audiences, many of these characters--and the celebrated women who played them--still define opera at its finest and most searingly affective, even if storylines leave them swooning and faded by the end of the drama. The presence and representation of women in opera has been addressed in a range of recent studies that offer valuable insights into the operatic stage as cultural space, focusing a critical lens at the text and the position and signification of female characters. Moving that lens onto the histori… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Poriss, Hilary (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-971083-6
EAN: 9780199710836
Produktnummer: 29340800
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 7'314 KB

Über den Autor

Rachel Cowgill is Professor of Music at Cardiff University, and editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Her research encompasses British music and musical cultures, Italian opera, Mozart reception, and gender and sexuality, and has appeared in Cambridge Opera Journal, JRMA, Early Music, Musical Times, and collections from Ashgate, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Oxford University Press, and Princeton University Press. Rachel co-edited Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music (Ashgate, 2006), Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914 (Ashgate, 2007), and Art and Ideology in European Opera (Boydell & Brewer, 2010).Hilary Poriss is Associate Professor at Northeastern University, Boston. Her research interests focus on Italian opera, performance practice, diva culture, and the aesthetics of nineteenth-century musical culture. She is the author of Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance (Oxford University Press, 2009); and co-editor, with Roberta Montemorra Marvin of Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She has published articles and reviews in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Verdi Forum, and Nineteenth-Century Music Review.