Verdi, Opera, Women

By:

Susan Rutherford

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Opera

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Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas of these characters hold for the nineteenth-century female spectator, especially during such a turbulent span in the history of the Italian peninsula? How was opera shaped by society - and was society similarly influenced by opera? Contextualising Verdi's female roles within aspects of women's social, cultural and political history, Susan Rutherford explores the interface between the reality of the spectators' lives and the imaginary of the fictional world before them on the operatic stage.

Author Biography:

Susan Rutherford is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester. Among various essays on voice, performance and nineteenth-century Italian opera, her publications also include The New Woman and her Sisters: Feminism and Theatre, 1850–1914 (co-editor, 1992), and The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815–1930 (Cambridge, 2006), which received the 2007 Pauline Alderman Award (IAWM) for research on women and music.

Release date NZ

February 2nd, 2017

Author

Susan Rutherford

Series

Cambridge Studies in Opera

Pages

306

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

11 Printed music items; 9 Halftones, black and white

Dimensions

170x245x15

ISBN-13

9781316639573

Product ID

26629464

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