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- Book Title
- Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession
- Publication Date
- 1992-11-27
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780521416832
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521416833
ISBN-13
9780521416832
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1064250
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Singers of Italian Opera : the History of a Profession
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Subject
Instruction & Study / Voice, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Opera
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
91-040160
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
782.1023
Table Of Content
List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: a living tradition; 1. Musicians attending; 2. Castrati; 3. Women; 4. The coming of a market; 5. Training; 6. Pay; 7. Careers; 8. The age of the tenor; 9. The coming of mass society; Notes; Note on further reading; Index.
Synopsis
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history, and could earn nearly $5,000 a night, yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century., Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
LC Classification Number
ML1460 .R68 1992
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