Changing the score : arias, prima donnas, and the authority of performance / Hilary Poriss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poriss, Hilary.

Series:

AMS studies in music.

AMS studies in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Italy--19th century.

Opera.

Operas--Performances--Italy--History--19th century.

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a ""perfect"" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performa

Contents:

A discourse of change

Selecting a "perfect" entrance : Carolina Ungher and Marino Faliero

Making their way through the world : Italian one-hit wonders

Maria Malibran, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and a tale of suicide

Che vuol cantare? The lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia

An insertion aria speaks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-215) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045268-4

0-19-974465-3

9786612328886

1-282-32888-3

OCLC:

496020626