Landscape and gender in Italian opera : the Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini / Emanuele Senici.
"Emanuele Senici explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpine virgin. In the nineteenth century, operas portraying an emphatically virginal heroine, a woman defined by her virginity, were often set in the mountains, most frequ...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2005
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| Edition: | Paperback re-issue. |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in opera.
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