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Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini - Cambridge Studies in Opera
Senici, Emanuele (University of Oxford)
Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini - Cambridge Studies in Opera
Senici, Emanuele (University of Oxford)
Emanuele Senici offers a new and unusual look at Italian opera in the nineteenth century, focusing on operas which present Alpine virgins as the female protagonist. The book explores the connection between landscape and gender in opera, from Bellini's La sonnambula (1831) to Puccini's La fanciulla del West (1910).
366 pages, 15 b/w illus. 26 music examples
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 11, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780521834377 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 164 × 234 × 24 mm · 650 g |
Language | English |
Series Editor | Carter, Tim |
Series Editor | Deathridge, John |
Series Editor | Groos, Arthur |
Series Editor | Hepokoski, James A. |
Series Editor | Robinson, Paul |
Series Editor | Rosand, Ellen |
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