Voicing gender: castrati, travesti, and the second woman in early-nineteenth-century italian opera
Auteur :
André, Naomi
Éditeur :
Indiana University Press
ISBN :
9780253217899
Date de publication :
13 févr. 2006
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
354 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honoured practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, and the heroic, the masculine, and the feminine were profoundly reconfigured. This book traces the development of female characters in these first decades of the century.