Five centuries of female singers
By: Isabelle Emerson.
Series: Music reference collection -- no. 88
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Singers -- Biography.; Women singers -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Ladies of Italy. Laura Peverara (c. 1545-1601) ; Vittoria Archilei (1550-1620s) ; Virginia Ramponi Andreini (d. 1628 or 1630) ; Adriana Basile (1580-c. 1640); value: Francesca Caccini (1587-c. 1645); value: Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677); value: Anna Renzi (c. 1620-1660 or later); value: Marie Le Rochois (c. 1658-1728); value: Francesca Cuzzoni (1696-1778); value: Faustina Bordoni (1700-1781); value: Gertrude Elisabeth Schmäling Mara (1749-1833); value: Anna Selina (Nancy) Storace (1765-1817); value: Giuditta Pasta (1797-1865); value: Wilhelmina Schröder-Devrient (1804-1860); value: Jenny Lind (1820-1887); value: Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910); value: Lillian Nordica (1857-1914); value: Helen Mitchell (Nellie) Melba (1861-1931); value: Jane Bathori (1877-1970); value: Marian Anderson (1897-1993).