Opera Acts: Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century

by Karen Henson

Book Overview

Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, C?lestine Galli-Mari?; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and '90s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107004268
• ISBN13: 9781107004269
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.8"