Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.
Contents
A discourse of change -- Selecting a "perfect" entrance : Carolina Ungher and Marino Faliero -- Making their way through the world : Italian one-hit wonders -- Maria Malibran, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and a tale of suicide -- Che vuol cantare? The lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia -- An insertion aria speaks.