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K835.465.76/1 版次： |
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K835.465.76 版次： |
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著者:
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Ellsmore, Caroline Anne. |
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Verdi's exceptional women : [ Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz /] / , |
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出版地： Abingdon, Oxon ; 出版社： Routledge, 出版日期： 2018. |
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x, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi' s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi' s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potest , in the context of women' s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi' s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi' s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi' s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi' s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ' divas' do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz' s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time. |
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主题词:
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Composers Italy |
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K835.465.76/1 |