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The arts of the prima donna in the long nineteenth century /

Title:
The arts of the prima donna in the long nineteenth century /
Published:
Oxford ; New York : c2012.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Divas and sonnets : poetry for female singers in Teatri arti e letteratura / Francesco Izzo -- Idealizing the prima donna in mid-Victorian London / Roberta Montemora Marvin -- Prima donnas and the performance of altruism / Hilary Porliss -- Staging scandal with Salome and Elektra / Joy H. Calico -- Screening the diva / Mary Simonson -- The prima donna's art of politics / James R. Currie -- The prima donna creates / Julian Rushton -- Gautier's "Diva" : the first French uses of the word / J. Q. Davies -- Artistic experiment and the reevaluation of the prima donna in George Moore's Evelyn Innes / Grace Kehler -- Ars moriendi : reflections on the death of Mimi / Helen Greenwald -- Lakmé's echoing jewels / Gurminder Kaur Bhogal -- Breath's end : opera and mortality / Terry Castle -- "Attitudes with a shawl" : performance, femininity, and spectatorship at the Italian opera in early nineteenth-century London / Rachel Cowgill -- From diva to drama queen / Tracy C. Davis -- The prima donna as opera impresario : Emma Carelli and the Teatro Costanzi, 1911-26 / Susan Rutherford -- "In imitation of my negro mammy" : Alma Gluck and the American prima donna / Susan C. Cook -- "The finest voice of the century" : Clara Butt and other concert-hall and drawing-room singers of fin-de-siècle Britain / Sophie Fuller -- Galli-Curci comes to town : the prima donna's presence in the age of mechanical reproduction / Alexandra Wilson.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML1705 .A78 2012 – Available