Search Results for: Female Singers On The French Stage 1830 1848

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

Introduction. Coloratura and Female Vocality -- The New Franco-Italian School of Singing -- Verdi and the End of Italian Coloratura -- Melismatic Madness and Te

The first major study of Saint-Saëns's stage music, timed to coincide with revivals of his operas on stage.

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eig