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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poriss, Hilary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:AMS studies in music.
Subjects:
Opera > Italy > 19th century.
Operas > Performances > Italy > History > 19th century.
Table of 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.