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Verdi, Opera, Women (Cambridge Studies in Opera)

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Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas of these characters hold for the nineteenth-century female spectator, especially during such a turbulent span in the history of the Italian peninsula? How was opera shaped by society - and was society similarly influenced by opera? Contextualising Verdi's female roles within aspects of women's social, cultural and political history, Susan Rutherford explores the interface between the reality of the spectators' lives and the imaginary of the fictional world before them on the operatic stage.


  • | Author: Susan Rutherford
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: Feb 02, 2017
  • | Number of Pages: 306 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/Music
  • | ISBN-10: 1316639576
  • | ISBN-13: 9781316639573
Author:
Susan Rutherford
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Feb 02, 2017
Number of pages:
306 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Music
ISBN-10:
1316639576
ISBN-13:
9781316639573