The arts of the prima donna in the long nineteenth century
Poriss, HilaryContributor
Cowgill, RachelContributor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narrative of 19th and early 20th century opera. This book shines a light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled doomed women onstage before an audience.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narrative of 19th and early 20th century opera. This book shines a light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled doomed women onstage before an audience.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 9, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Opera
Women singers
Singers
Opera
Music
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Music History & Criticism, Vocal