Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera

The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini

AvEmanuele Senici

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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In this unusual study, Emanuele Senici explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpine virgin. In the nineteenth century, operas portraying an emphatically virginal heroine, a woman defined by her virginity, were often set in the mountains, most frequently the Alps. The clarity of the sky, the whiteness of the snow and the purity of the air were associated with the 'innocence' of the female protagonist. Senici discusses a number of works particularly relevant to the origins, transformations and meanings of this conventional association including Bellini's La sonnambula (1831), Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix (1842), Verdi's Luisa Miller (1849), and Puccini's La fanciulla del West (1910). This convention presents an unusual point of view - a theme rather than a composer, a librettist, a singer or a genre - from which to observe Italian opera 'at work' over a century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-01-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Opera
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521107785

Utforska kategorier

Opera inom Kultur
Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Emanuele Senici is University Lecturer in Music at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Hugh's College. In 2002 he was awarded the Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association. He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Rossini (2004) and co-edits the Cambridge Opera Journal.

Recensioner i media

Review of the hardback: '… a wide-ranging interdisciplinary exploration of a major aspect of Romanticism neglected in previous studies of nineteenth-century opera. … There is excellent material on the literary sources … This is a deeply intelligent study.' Musical Times

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; List of musical examples; Acknowledgments; 1. Virgins, mountains, opera; 2. 'At the foot of the Alps': The landscape of La sonnambula; 3. Linda di Chamounix and the ideology of chastity; 4. The politics of genre in Luisa Miller; 5. Deflowering the Alps: from I promessi sposi to La Wally and Fedora; 6. La fanciulla del West: a new landscape for a new virgin; Notes; Index.