Changing the Score : Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance.

Changing the Score : Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance.

This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth.

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Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press, USA 2009.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Opera > Italy > 19th century.
Operas > Performances > Italy > History > 19th century.
Opera
Operas > Performances
Italy
History
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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.

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