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The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Cambridge Studies in Opera)

Suzanne Aspden

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Description:The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Cambridge Studies in Opera). To get started finding The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Cambridge Studies in Opera), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Cambridge Studies in Opera). To get started finding The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Cambridge Studies in Opera), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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