Landscape And Gender In Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin From Bellini To Puccini

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).

• | By (Author): Emanuele (University Of Oxford) Senici
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 29, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521107784
• | ISBN-13: 9780521107785