Changing the score : arias, prima donnas, and the authority of performance / Hilary Poriss.

Author/Creator:

Poriss, Hilary.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Series:

AMS studies in music.
AMS studies in music

Format/Description:

Book
viii, 226 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.
Operas -- Performances -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.

Contents:

A discourse of change
Selecting a "perfect" entrance : Carolina Ungher and Marino Faliero
Making their way through the world : Italian one-hit wonders
Maria Malibran, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and a tale of suicide
Che vuol cantare? The lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia
An insertion aria speaks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195386714
019538671X

OCLC:

265736857

Online:

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