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Singers of Italian Opera - The History of a Profession (Book, New Ed)
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Singers of Italian Opera - The History of a Profession (Book, New Ed)
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Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She
earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet
a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a
pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study
introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as
stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth
century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from
dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of
the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against
the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers.
Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with
amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans
at all levels.
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