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The arts of the prima donna in the long nineteenth century
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opera--19th century.
- Opera.
- Women singers--20th century.
- Women singers.
- Singers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narrative of 19th and early 20th century opera. This book shines a light on the singers who created and inhabited these roles, the flesh-and-blood women who embodied these fabled doomed women onstage before an audience.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 9, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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