Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini (Cambridge Studies in Opera)

Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini 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 Bellinis La sonnambula (1831) to Puccinis La fanciulla del West (1910). Autor: Emanuele (University of Oxford) Senici Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press Rok wydania: 2009 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 368 Wymiary: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm Ilustracje: 26 Printed music items; 15 Halftones, unspecified Język: angielski ISBN: 9780521107785