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Verdi's Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz

Verdi's Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz

Ellsmore, Caroline

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 1138735701
ISBN13: 9781138735705
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 12 2017
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

    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 women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi's creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Revealing her value to Verdi, Stolz's letters also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.

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