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Changing the Score - Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance (Hardcover)
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Changing the Score - Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance (Hardcover)
Series: AMS Studies in Music
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This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria
insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of
their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter
investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth
century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of
the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of
individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular
insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a
"perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero;
Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a
variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular
aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from
Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I
Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the
lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia.
The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir
of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself,
and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first
modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain
utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a
wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars
and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic
work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and
hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.
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