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Item Details
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OPERA ACTS
SINGERS AND PERFORMANCE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY |
By: |
Karen Henson |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£72.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1107004268 |
ISBN 13: |
9781107004269 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 January, 2015 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Opera |
Pages: |
282 |
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 |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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