Changing the Score

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Changing the Score is written by Hilary Poriss and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190452684 (ISBN 10) and 9780190452681 (ISBN 13).

This study is the first to explore the significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian opera during the nineteenth century. Each chapter investigates this practice from varying perspectives and through the experiences of some of the century's most famous prima donnas.