[PDF.21xc] The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Cambridge Studies in Opera)

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

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 | #4942570 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2013-05-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.72 x.75 x6.85l,1.55 | File type: PDF | 308 pages

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|| |"... uses the largely fictitious rivalry between opera divas Francesca Cuzzoni (1696-1778) and Faustina Bordoni (1697-1781) as the departure point for investigating identity and concepts of self in 18th century theatre and opera seria ... Recommended. Graduate

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 rea...

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