Verdi, Opera, Women
Part of Cambridge Studies in Opera
- Author: Susan Rutherford, University of Manchester
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Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas of these characters hold for the nineteenth-century female spectator, especially during such a turbulent span in the history of the Italian peninsula? How was opera shaped by society - and was society similarly influenced by opera? Contextualising Verdi's female roles within aspects of women's social, cultural and political history, Susan Rutherford explores the interface between the reality of the spectators' lives and the imaginary of the fictional world before them on the operatic stage.
Read more- Situates Verdi's heroines within the social, cultural and political history of their period, appealing to readers who want to develop their contextual understanding of opera and Italian history
- Presents a rounded view of opera, drawing on theatre historiography and theory as well as music
- Proposes an alternative approach to Verdi's operas, from a gender studies perspective
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- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781107454934
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 11 music examples
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Table of Contents
Prologue: Verdi and his audience
1. War
2. Prayer
3. Romance
4. Sexuality
5. Marriage
6. Death
7. Laughter
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