Author: Lewis Clinton Strang
Publisher:
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Category : Actresses, American
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Famous Prima Donnas
Author: Lewis Clinton Strang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actresses, American
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actresses, American
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Changing the Score
Author: Hilary Poriss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199744653
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199744653
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.
Famous Prima Donnas
Author: Lewis Clinton Strang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185167X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185167X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Alice Nielsen and the Gayety of Nations
Author: Dall Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9979978740
Category : Opera producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Biography of a soprano, Alice Nielsen, star of Broadway musicals and operas, and director of an opera company, who was raised in Kansas City.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9979978740
Category : Opera producers and directors
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Biography of a soprano, Alice Nielsen, star of Broadway musicals and operas, and director of an opera company, who was raised in Kansas City.
Famous Composers and Their Works
Author: John Knowles Paine
Publisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday
Author: Henry Charles Lahee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Famous Composers and Their Music
Author: Theodore Thomas
Publisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Music and Musicians
Author: Albert Lavignac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1907-1911
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
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