1st Edition
Verdi�s Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz
By Caroline Ellsmore
Copyright 2018
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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 potestà , in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two... Read more
1. To Lift the Curtain 2. Verdi’s Ethical World 3. Verdi, Machismo and Salotto 4. Verdi and His Prime Donne 5. Feliciano’s Daughter: Giuseppina Strepponi 6. A ‘New Woman’ for Verdi 7. The New Siren: Teresa Stolz 8. Letters from Aida 9.Conclusion
Biography
Caroline Anne Ellsmore completed her PhD in Musicology at the University of Melbourne, under Professors Kerry Murphy and Elizabeth Hudson. A singer and teacher of voice, Caroline has also been head of secondary school Music departments in New South Wales and Victoria. She has presented conference papers throughout Australia and in Vancouver, for the American Musicological Society, in 2016.
