Summary
Along with the increased emphasis on stage presence and the negotiation of more complex stage settings, there was an ever expanding need for more vocal power, not just in the Wagnerian music dramas and the operas of Richard Strauss, but also in operas by French composers Reyer and Chausson, and even in the Italian school of the late Verdi, Ponchielli, Mascagni, and certainly in the Puccini of La fanciulla del West and Turandot.
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The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
OPERA The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930. By Susan Rutherford. (Cambridge Studies in Opera.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [xii, 381 p. ISBN-10 0-521-85167-X; ISBN-13 978-0-5218-5167-1. $99.] Index, bibliography.
As Susan Rutherford points out early in her book, this is not a study of the great individual prima donnas or a book ...See the full content of this document
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