| Description |
xv, 283 pages : illustrations, 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 Vaëz, 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 bohème (1927) / David B. Rosen -- What is tradition? / Will Crutchfield -- Epilogue : the art of "translation" / John Mauceri. |
| Subject |
Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.
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Opera. |
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Italy. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Operas -- Performances.
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Operas -- Performances. |
| Added Author |
Marvin, Roberta Montemorra.
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Poriss, Hilary.
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| ISBN |
9780521889988 hardback |
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0521889987 hardback |
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