Voicing Gender

Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Naomi Andre

Indiana University Press, 2006

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The early 19th century was a period of acute transition in operatic tradition and style, when time-honoured practices gave way to the developing aesthetics of Romanticism, and the heroic, the masculine, and the feminine were profoundly reconfigured. This book traces the development of female characters in these first decades of the century.

ISBN-13
9780253217899
ISBN-10
025321789X
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2006
Publication date
2006-02-13
Pages
248
Dimensions
234 x 156 x 16
Weight
404