The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930 Hardback (Cambridge Studies in Opera) - Hardcover

Rutherford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052185167X ISBN 13: 9780521851671

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Examining both famous and unknown artists, this book offers a reappraisal of the female operatic singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It attempts to locate these singers within a broader history, including not only the specificities of operatic stage practice but the life beyond the opera house.

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Review of the hardback: 'This is a comprehensive and articulate study, intelligently constructed and stylishly written. It's also a valuable corrective to those endlessly gushing descriptions of bouquets, champagne and jewels, many of them the work of the prima donnas themselves. BBC Music Magazine

Review of the hardback: '... this book is a joy. ... The names of many about whom she writes may not be widely known today but thanks to her enthusiastic and vivid style of writing, they leap from the pages of a book I cannot recommend too highly.' Classical Music

Review of the hardback: 'Rutherford's interaction with their histories offers a delightful reading of these individuals as both themselves and prima donnas.' Patricia Puckett Sasser, Nineteenth-Century Music Review

Biografía del autor:

Susan Rutherford is Lecturer in Performance Studies in Drama, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 052185167X
• ISBN 13: 9780521851671
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394