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Singers of Italian Opera : The History of a Profession by John Rosselli (1992, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521416833
ISBN-139780521416832
eBay Product ID (ePID)1064250
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameSingers of Italian Opera : the History of a Profession
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
SubjectInstruction & Study / Voice, Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Opera
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn Rosselli
Subject AreaMusic, Biography & Autobiography
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.9 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN91-040160
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal782.1023
Table Of ContentList of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: a living tradition; 1. Musicians attending; 2. Castrati; 3. Women; 4. The coming of a market; 5. Training; 6. Pay; 7. Careers; 8. The age of the tenor; 9. The coming of mass society; Notes; Note on further reading; Index.
SynopsisAdelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history, and could earn nearly $5,000 a night, yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century., Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
LC Classification NumberML1460 .R68 1992
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