The arts of the prima donna in the long nineteenth century

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The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century is an important addition to the collections of students and researchers in opera studies, nineteenth-century music, performance and gender/sexuality studies, and cultural studies, as well as to the shelves of opera singers and : Paperback.

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century Edited by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss. First text on the prima donna to focus more on the actual performers than the characters they portrayed ; Features Contributors at the forefront of women's and gender issues in Opera Studies.

A key theme is the emergence of the diva archetype over the course of the century—a new ideological discourse through which the extremes of operatic female vocality were reinterpreted. Chapters approach the prima donna from the perspectives of cultural history, musicology, gender/sexuality studies, theater and literature studies, and critical theory.

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century is an important addition to the collections of students and researchers in opera studies, nineteenth-century music, performance and gender/sexuality studies, and cultural studies, as well as to the shelves of opera singers and enthusiasts--Publisher description.

The Arts of the Prima Donna assembles a star-studded yet well-balanced cast of contributors, whose essays combine theoretical approaches to text and narrative.

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century is a collection of essays rich in its variety of scholarly and critical voices. It focuses broadly on both large conceptual issues and on defining the concept of the prima donna, and narrowly on individuals, documenting historical women starring in or managing opera and theater.

Cowgill, Rachel and Poriss, Hilary () The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN Metadata only available from this repository. Moving that lens onto the historical, The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century sheds light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled "doomed women" onstage before an s Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss lead a cast of renowned contributors in an impressive display of current approaches to.

Moving that lens onto the historical, The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century sheds light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled {"}doomed women{"} onstage before an s Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss lead a cast of renowned contributors in an impressive display of current approaches to the.

This book explores the means by which this preeminence was negotiated, traversing the musical, the dramatic, and the visual, while addressing more recognizably modern concerns, such as career management, literary representation, and image manipulation.

research interests include the 19th-century Italian and French opera performance culture and aesthetics. She has authored Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance () and co-edited Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera () and The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century.

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2, pp. Edited by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss. Oxford: Oxford University Press, “The Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of Verdi’s La traviata.” Art and Ideology in European Opera, Ch. 10, pp. The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Edited by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss. New York: Oxford University Press, [xlvi, p. ISBN (hardcover), $99; ISBN (paperback), $] Music examples, illustrations, index. College of Arts Media & Design • Music.

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As is logical, his discussion is basically chronological, starting with the rise of the female singer in the later Baroque period (as the previously dominant castrati waned in favor), proceeding through the heyday of the adored prima donna in the nineteenth century and concluding with a look at the scene in modern times (the book now, of course Reviews: 6.

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century is an important addition to the collections of students and researchers in opera studies, nineteenth-century music, performance and gender/sexuality studies, and cultural studies, as well as to the shelves of opera singers and enthusiasts.

The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ). xlvi + pp. $ US Sylvia L’Écuyer Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 Aprilpp. “The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century” was co-edited by Northeastern’s Hilary Poriss.

Poriss has co-edited a book on the role of opera’s leading female performer, the prima donna, in shaping not only some of the most famous operas of the 19th and 20th centuries but also their world at large.Tracing the genealogy of Catalani’s “attitudes,” the chapter explores tensions and contradictions in early nineteenth-century English views of the prima donna, the role of operatic performance in negotiating femininities, and the potency of the figures of prostitute/courtesan and social-climber in regulating female performance whether on stage or in the opera box.Chapter 6 The Prima Donna’s Art of Politics; The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

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