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OPERA ACTS
SINGERS AND PERFORMANCE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY |
| By: |
Karen Henson |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£102.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0511783663 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780511783661 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 January, 2015 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Opera |
| Description: |
Karen Henson explores a wealth of new historical material about singers and opera performance in the late nineteenth century. |
| Synopsis: |
Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Celestine Galli-Marie; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and '90s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century. |
| Illustrations: |
17 b/w illus. 44 music examples |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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