| Description |
xviii, 226 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in opera
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Cambridge studies in opera.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A chronology / Hannah Clancy, David Gutkin, and Lucie Vágnerová -- Introduction : Of modern operatic mythologies and technologies / Karen Henson -- Mythologies of the diva in nineteenth-century French theater / Isabelle Moindrot -- Coloratura and technology in the mid nineteenth-century mad scene / Sean M. Parr -- Photographic diva : Massenet's relationship with the soprano Sibyl Sanderson / Karen Henson -- "Pretending to be wicked" : Divas, technology, and the consumption of Bizet's Carmen / Susan Rutherford -- Silent diva : Farrar's Carmen / Melina Esse -- Domestic diva : Toward an operatic history of the telephone / Lydia Goehr -- Absent diva : Notes toward a life of Cathy Berberian / Arman Schwartz -- Televisual apotheosis of the diva in István Szabó's Meeting Venus / Heather Hadlock -- Diva poses by Anna Netrebko : On the perception of the extraordinary in the twenty-first century / Clemens Risi -- Afterword : Opera, media, technicity / Jonathan Sterne |
| Subject |
Opera -- History.
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Opera. |
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History. |
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Sopranos (Singers) -- History.
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Sopranos (Singers) |
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Opera and technology -- History.
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Opera and technology. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Henson, Karen, 1972- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780521198066 hardcover |
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0521198062 hardcover |
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