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Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781107472624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Susan Rutherford explores Verdi's operas in the context of women's social, cultural and political history in nineteenth-century Italy.
Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1107043824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prologue : Verdi and his audience -- War -- Prayer -- Romance -- Sexuality -- Marriage -- Death -- Laughter.
Author: Caroline Anne Ellsmore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1351731637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.
Author: Catherine Clement
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780816635269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This was the first work to have applied a systematised feminist theory to opera. It concentrates on the stories & text of opera, that perhaps have more relevence today in a growing literature than it had when it was the "sacrilegious" pioneering work.
Author: Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108814140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Verdi's enduring presence on the opera stages of the world and as a subject for scholarly study by researchers in various disciplines has placed him as a central figure within modern culture. The composer's undisputed popularity from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, among enthusiasts and scholars alike, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia. This comprehensive resource covers all aspects of Verdi's music and his world, including the people he knew and worked with, his compositions, and their reception. Extensive appendices list all of Verdi's known works, both published and unpublished, and the characters in his operas. As a starting point for information on specific works, people, places, and concepts, the Encyclopedia reflects the very latest scholarship, presented by an international array of experts in a manner that will have a broad appeal for opera lovers, students, and scholars.
Author: Gabriele Baldini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1980-11-13
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521297127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions.
Author: Caroline Anne Ellsmore
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-20
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780367888534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-10
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 052185167X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published:
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781457483066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Expertly arranged Vocal Score by Giuseppe Verdi from the Kalmus Edition series. This Opera Score is from the Romantic era.
Author: Mary Ann Smart
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-12-25
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1400866715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. Here a distinguished and diverse group of musicologists, literary critics, and feminist scholars address a wide range of fascinating topics--from Salome's striptease to hysteria to jazz and gender--in Italian, English, German, and French operas from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The authors combine readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within richly and precisely observed historical contexts. Challenging both formalist categories of musical analysis and the rhetoric that traditionally pits a male composer against the female characters he creates, many of the articles work toward inventing a language for the study of gender and opera. The collection opens with Mary Ann Smart's introduction, which provides an engaging reflection on the state of gender topics in operatic criticism and musicology. It then moves on to a foundational essay on the complex relationships between opera and history by the renowned philosopher and novelist Catherine Clément, a pioneer of feminist opera criticism. Other articles examine the evolution of the "trouser role" as it evolved in the lesbian subculture of fin-de-siècle Paris, the phenomenon of opera seria's "absent mother" as a manifestation of attitudes to the family under absolutism, the invention of a "hystericized voice" in Verdi's Don Carlos, and a collaborative discussion of the staging problems posed by the gender politics of Mozart's operas. The contributors are Wye Jamison Allanboork, Joseph Auner, Katherine Bergeron, Philip Brett, Peter Brooks, Catherine Clement, Martha Feldman, Heather Hadlock, Mary Hunter, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon, M.D., Lawrence Kramer, Roger Parker, Mary Ann Smart, and Gretchen Wheelock.
