Download or read book Verdi s Exceptional Women Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz written by Caroline Anne Ellsmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.
Download or read book Verdi Opera Women written by Susan Rutherford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas of these characters hold for the nineteenth-century female spectator, especially during such a turbulent span in the history of the Italian peninsula? How was opera shaped by society - and was society similarly influenced by opera? Contextualising Verdi's female roles within aspects of women's social, cultural and political history, Susan Rutherford explores the interface between the reality of the spectators' lives and the imaginary of the fictional world before them on the operatic stage.
Download or read book Opera Or The Undoing of Women written by Catherine Clement and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the first work to have applied a systematised feminist theory to opera. It concentrates on the stories & text of opera, that perhaps have more relevence today in a growing literature than it had when it was the "sacrilegious" pioneering work.
Download or read book Who s Who in Verdi written by Jonathan Lewsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. Concentrating exclusively on the dramatic content of Verdi's opera, this text illuminates the characters and plot scenarios that inspired one of the greatest composers of opera. Organized alphabetically, the reference contains over 250 entries, with synopses and first performance and cast details.
Download or read book Extraordinary Women of the Rocky Mountain West written by and published by Pikes Peak Library District. This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at the fourth annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium held June 9, 2007 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Profiles a number of prominent and exceptional women throughout the history of the Rocky Mountain West and highlights the political, cultural, economic and social conditions which these women helped to shape.
Download or read book Nevada s Remarkable Women written by Jan Cleere and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the compelling histories of fifteen pioneer women, all born before 1900, who traveled Nevada Territory in unstable wagons, on temperamental mules, and in early Motel Ts to leave a legacy of courage and celebration as they broke records, hearts, and rules while conquering uncharted ground. Meet Ferminia Sarras, a Nicaraguan immigrant with four young daughters who arrived in Nevada in the early 1800s determined to seek her fortune as a miner . . . and succeeded; Dat so la lee, a Washoe Indian renowned for her basket-weaving artistry whose work is today preserved in museums; and Anne Henrietta Martin, a lifelong suffragette who fought for women's rights and was instrumental in securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
Download or read book My Life After Now written by Jessica Verdi and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she loses a leading role and her leading man to another girl, sixteen-year-old Lucy, a member of the high school drama club, does something completely out of character that has life-altering consequences.
Download or read book Verdi written by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and published by Oxford [England] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than 30-years of research and drawing on both public and private archives, this biography of the great Italian composer is unprecedented in its unraveling of the facts and legends of his life and in portraying the man and his times. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book My Secret Planet written by Denis Healey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this autobiography, Denis Healey reveals the breadth of his interests and his knowledge of the arts. In this book, he takes time to look at the literary influences that have shaped his life - his comments are interlaced with quotations from poetry, fiction, philosophy and history, providing a guide to help readers rediscover books he or she may once have read, following onto new authors.
Download or read book Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park Cliff Palace written by J. Walter Fewkes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Cliff Palace by J. Walter Fewkes
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Download or read book Discovering Classical Music Verdi written by Ian Christians and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of classical music can be highly intimidating and confusing. Ian Christians, for many years a passionate believer in broadening the interest in classical music, has developed a unique approach, designed to make it as easy as possible for both newcomers to classical music and those who have started down the path to explore with confidence. Discovering Classical Music concentrates on the greatest composers. The author takes you step-by-step into their most approachable music and, in some cases, boldly into some of the greatest works traditionally considered too difficult for newcomers. Rarely does a book offer such potential for continued enjoyment.This volume concentrates on the life, personality and music of Edward William Elgar.
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Download or read book Modernizing Costume Design 1820 1920 written by Annie Holt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual performer’s taste or status. She argues that in the period 1820–1920, as part of the larger project of modernism across the artistic and cultural field, the functions of "clothing" and "costume" diverged. Onstage apparel took on a more specific semiotic task, acting as a fresh channel for the flow of information between the performer, the literary text, and the spectator. Modernizing Costume Design traces how five kinds of artists – directors, performers, writers, couturiers, and painters – made key contributions to this new model of costume design. Holt shows that by 1920, costume design shifted in status from craft to art.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-06-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey Volume 57 Macbeth and Its Afterlife written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print. Backnumbers are gradually being reissued in paperback.
Download or read book Western Africa and Cabo Verde 1790s 1830s written by George E. Brooks and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Western Africa and Cabo Verde, 1790s-1830s; Symbiosis of Slave and Legitimate Trades' addresses the collaboration of slave traders and shipmasters engaged in legitimate commerce. This monograph is the third volume of a trilogy treating the history of western Africa from the 11th to the 19th centuries. It follows 'Landlords and Strangers; Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630' (Westview Press 1993) and 'Eurafricans in Western Africa; Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century' (Ohio University Press, 2003). All three monographs describe commercial, social, and cultural links between the Cape Verde archipelago, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, and Sierra Leone.
