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Cambridge University Press Opera Acts: Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Opera)

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Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1107004268
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Opera
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 January 2015
Listed Since: 10 November 2013

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