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Title Fashions and legacies of nineteenth-century Italian opera / edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Hilary Poriss.

Imprint Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  782.1094509 F262 2010    ---  Available
Description xv, 283 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Italian opera's fashions and legacies / Hilary Poriss -- Viardot sings Handel (with thanks to George Sand, Chopin, Meyerbeer, Gounod, and Julius Rietz) / Ellen T. Harris -- Partners in rhyme : Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaez, and foreign opera in Paris during the July monarchy / Mark Everist -- Verdian opera in the Victorian parlor / Roberta Montemorra Marvin -- I falsi Puritani : a case of espionage / Fabrizio Della Seta -- "To the ear of the amateur" : performing ottocento opera piecemeal / Hilary Poriss -- Peeping at pachyderms : convergences of sex and music in France around 1800 / Jeffrey Kallberg -- Aida and nine readings of empire / Ralph P. Locke -- Comic sights : stage directions in Luigi Ricci's autograph scores / Francesco Izzo -- Staging and form in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello / Andreas Giger -- Stanislavsky's La boheme (1927) / David B. Rosen -- What is tradition? / Will Crutchfield -- Epilogue : The art of "translation" / John Mauceri.
Subject Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.
Operas -- Performances.
Added Author Marvin, Roberta Montemorra.
Poriss, Hilary.
ISBN 9780521889988 (hbk.)
0521889987 (hbk.)

 
    
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