Prima donna : a history / Rupert Christiansen.
This book is a history of a line of women who for nearly 300 years have been at the center of the magnificence and scandal of opera, ridiculed, reviled, and worshipped. I have tried to put their lives and their art into the contexts of operatic and cultural history. - Introduction.
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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Viking,
1985, ©1984.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- From opera seria to Mozart
- Romantic opera
- The Victorian nightingales
- The Wagnerians
- Great names of New York
- Verdi and a variety of sopranos
- Strauss and the prima donna in Vienna
- National style, or the lack of it
- The Callas revolution
- The future of the prima donna
- Select bibliography.