Landscape and gender in Italian opera
Subtitle: the Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini
By: Emanuele Senici.
Series: Cambridge studies in opera
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.; Opera -- Italy -- 20th century.; Heroines in opera.; Virginity in opera.; Mountains in opera.; Mountains -- Symbolic aspects.
Other titles: Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-348) and index.
Table of contents: title: Virgins, mountains, opera; title: "At the foot of the Alps" : the landscape of La sonnambula; title: Linda di Chamounix and the ideology of chastity; title: The politics of genre in Luisa Miller; title: Deflowering the Alps : from I promessi sposi to La Wally and Fedora; title: La fanciulla del West : a new landscape for a new virgin.