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245 10 a| Landscape and gender in Italian opera :b| the Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini /c| Emanuele Senici.;

246 30 a| Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini;

260 a| Cambridge ;a| New York :b| Cambridge University Press,c| 2005.;

300 a| x, 356 pages :b| illustrations, music ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Cambridge studies in opera;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index.;

505 00 t| Virgins, mountains, opera --t| 'At the foot of the Alps': the landscape of La Sonnambula --t| Linda di Chamounix and the ideology of chastity --t| The politics of genre in Luisa Miller --t| Deflowering the Alps: from I promessi sposi to La Wally and Fedora --t| La Fanciulla del West: a new landscape for a new virgin.;

520 a| This book explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpine virgin. In the nineteenth century, operas portraying an emphatically virginal heroine, a woman defined by her virginity, were often set in the mountains, most frequently the Alps. The clarity of the sky, the whiteness of the snow and the purity of the air were associated with the 'innocence' of the female protagonist. The author discusses a number of works particularly relevant to the origins, transformations and meanings of this conventional association including Bellini's La Sonnambula (1831), Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix (1842), Verdi's Luisa Miller (1849), and Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (1910). This convention presents an unusual point of view--a theme rather than a composer, a librettist, a singer or a genre--from which to observe Italian opera 'at work' over a century.;

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Landscape and gender in Italian opera : the Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini / Emanuele Senici.

Author/creator	Senici, Emanuele
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description	x, 356 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Opera--Italy. --19th century. Opera--Italy. --20th century. Heroines in opera. Virginity in opera. Mountains in opera. Mountains--Symbolic aspects.

Portion of title	Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini
Series	Cambridge studies in opera Cambridge studies in opera. ^A396000
Contents	Virgins, mountains, opera -- 'At the foot of the Alps': the landscape of La Sonnambula -- Linda di Chamounix and the ideology of chastity -- The politics of genre in Luisa Miller -- Deflowering the Alps: from I promessi sposi to La Wally and Fedora -- La Fanciulla del West: a new landscape for a new virgin.
Abstract	This book explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpine virgin. In the nineteenth century, operas portraying an emphatically virginal heroine, a woman defined by her virginity, were often set in the mountains, most frequently the Alps. The clarity of the sky, the whiteness of the snow and the purity of the air were associated with the 'innocence' of the female protagonist. The author discusses a number of works particularly relevant to the origins, transformations and meanings of this conventional association including Bellini's La Sonnambula (1831), Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix (1842), Verdi's Luisa Miller (1849), and Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (1910). This convention presents an unusual point of view--a theme rather than a composer, a librettist, a singer or a genre--from which to observe Italian opera 'at work' over a century.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index.
LCCN	2005047831
ISBN	0521834376
ISBN	9780521834377

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