Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera(English, Hardcover, Senici Emanuele)

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Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera(English, Hardcover, Senici Emanuele) is written by Senici Emanuele and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521834376 (ISBN 10) and 9780521834377 (ISBN 13).

In this unusual study, Emanuele Senici explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpine virgin. In the nineteenth century, operas portraying an emphatically virginal heroine, a woman defined by her virginity, were often set in the mountains, most frequently the Alps. The clarity of the sky, the whiteness of the snow and the purity of the air were associated with the 'innocence' of the female protagonist. Senici discusses a number of works particularly relevant to the origins, transformations and meanings of this conventional association including Bellini's La sonnambula (1831), Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix (1842), Verdi's Luisa Miller (1849), and Puccini's La fanciulla del West (1910). This convention presents an unusual point of view - a theme rather than a composer, a librettist, a singer or a genre - from which to observe Italian opera 'at work' over a century.