Title Opera acts : singers and performance in the late nineteenth century / Karen Henson.

Publication Info.	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
	©2015

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML1705 .H46	Available	---

Description	xvi, 264 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
Series	Cambridge studies in opera
	Cambridge studies in opera.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-253) and index.
Contents	Introduction : on not singing and singing physiognomically -- Verdi, Victor Maurel, and the operatic interpreter -- Real mezzo : Câelestine Galli-Marié as Carmen -- Photographic diva : Massenet, Sibyl Sanderson, and the soprano as spectacle -- Jean de Reszke, the "problem" of the tenor, and the early international Wagner performance -- Supporting cast.
Language	English text.
Subject	Opera -- 19th century.
	Opera.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Singing -- History -- 19th century.
	Singing.
	History.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	History.
ISBN	9781107004269
	1107004268