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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/806456391 Title: The rival sirens : performance and identity on Handel's operatic stage Author: Suzanne Aspden Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN/ISSN: 9781107033375 1107033373 OCLC:806456391

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The rival sirens : performance and identity on Handel's operatic stage

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The rival sirens : performance and identity on Handel's operatic stage

Author:	Suzanne Aspden
Publisher:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:	Cambridge studies in opera.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened Read more...
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Subjects	Handel, George Frideric, -- 1685-1759. -- Operas. Handel, George Frideric, -- 1685-1759 -- Performances. Cuzzoni, Francesca, -- 1696-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Criticism, interpretation, etc
Named Person:	George Frideric Handel; George Frideric Handel; Francesca Cuzzoni; Faustina Bordoni; Faustina Bordoni; Francesca Cuzzoni; George Frideric Handel; Georg Friedrich Händel; Faustina Hasse-Bordoni; Francesca Cuzzoni; Georg Friedrich Haendel; Francesca Cuzzoni; Faustina Bordoni
Material Type:	Biography
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Suzanne Aspden Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781107033375 1107033373
OCLC Number:	806456391
Description:	xv, 291 pages : illustrations, music ; 2013.
Contents:	The character of the actress -- "Heroick virtue" in Rodelinda and Astianatte -- Identification and illusion in Alessandro and Admeto -- Balancing power in Riccardo primo -- Senesino and the crisis of heroic masculinity -- The ornamental voice.
Series Title:	Cambridge studies in opera.
Responsibility:	Suzanne Aspden.

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This new approach to the operas of Handel examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera. It emphasises cultural Read more...

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