Bewitching Russian opera
Subtitle: tsarinas from state to stage
By: Inna Naroditskaya
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195340587
Subjects: Women in opera; Women opera producers and directors; Kings and rulers in opera; Opera; Empresses; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture : Russia's imperial prima donnas; title: Russian Minervas staging empire; title: The play of possibilities : serfs enacting aristocrats, countesses playing peasants; title: Catherine the empress(ario) : making tales into princely operas; title: Oleg at the roots of Russian historical opera; title: Interlude : to patria and nation; title: Ruslan and Liudmila: the princess, the witch, and the dwarf; title: Rusalka : water, power, and women; title: Mlada and the spellbinding female circle; title: Sadko : he is the hero!; title: The inescapable queen.