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Opera acts : singers and performance in the late nineteenth century /

Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures--the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel, Bizet's first Carmen Celestine Ga...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henson, Karen, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Colección:Cambridge studies in opera.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Verdi, Victor Maurel, and the operatic interpreter
  • 2. Real mezzo: Celestine Galli-Marie as Carmen
  • 3. Photographic diva: Massenet, Sibyl Sanderson, and the soprano as spectacle
  • 4. Jean de Reszke, the "problem" of the tenor, and early international Wagner performance.