Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera
The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini
Emanuele (University of Oxford) Senici
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Emanuele Senici offers a new and unusual look at Italian opera in the nineteenth century, focusing on operas which present Alpine virgins as the female protagonist. The book explores the connection between landscape and gender in opera, from Bellini's La sonnambula (1831) to Puccini's La fanciulla del West (1910).
- ISBN-13
- 9780521834377
- ISBN-10
- 0521834376
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2005
- Publication date
- 2005-08-11
- Pages
- 368
- Dimensions
- 234 x 164 x 24
- Weight
- 650