Verdi, Opera, Women
Title | Verdi, Opera, Women PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Rutherford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Opera |
ISBN | 9781107472624 |
Susan Rutherford explores Verdi's operas in the context of women's social, cultural and political history in nineteenth-century Italy.
Verdi, Opera, Women
Title | Verdi, Opera, Women PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Rutherford |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107043824 |
Prologue : Verdi and his audience -- War -- Prayer -- Romance -- Sexuality -- Marriage -- Death -- Laughter.
Opera, Or, The Undoing of Women
Title | Opera, Or, The Undoing of Women PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Clement |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780816635269 |
This was the first work to have applied a systematised feminist theory to opera. It concentrates on the stories & text of opera, that perhaps have more relevence today in a growing literature than it had when it was the "sacrilegious" pioneering work.
Verdi’s Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz
Title | Verdi’s Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Anne Ellsmore |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2017-12-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351731637 |
This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.
The Story of Giuseppe Verdi
Title | The Story of Giuseppe Verdi PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriele Baldini |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1980-11-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521297127 |
A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions.
The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Title | The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930 PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Rutherford |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2006-08-10 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 052185167X |
An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Verdi's Exceptional Women
Title | Verdi's Exceptional Women PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Anne Ellsmore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 238 |
Release | 2019-12-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367888534 |