Emanuele Senici

Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera

The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An unusual look at Italian opera in the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780521107785
• ISBN-10: 0521107784
• Artikelnr.: 25906871

Autorenporträt

Emanuele Senici is University Lecturer in Music at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Hugh's College. In 2002 he was awarded the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association. He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Rossini (2004) and co-edits the Cambridge Opera Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of musical examples
Acknowledgments
1. Virgins, mountains, opera
2. 'At the foot of the Alps': The landscape of La sonnambula
3. Linda di Chamounix and the ideology of chastity
4. The politics of genre in Luisa Miller
5. Deflowering the Alps: from I promessi sposi to La Wally and Fedora
6. La fanciulla del West: a new landscape for a new virgin
Notes
Index.