Opera acts : singers and performance in the late nineteenth century / Karen Henson.

Author: Henson, Karen, 1972- author.

Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Descriptionxvi, 264 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.

Note:Introduction : on not singing and singing physiognomically -- Verdi, Victor Maurel, and the operatic interpreter -- Real mezzo : Câelestine Galli-Mariâe as Carmen -- Photographic diva : Massenet, Sibyl Sanderson, and the soprano as spectacle -- Jean de Reszke, the "problem" of the tenor, and the early international Wagner -- Supporting cast.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-253) and index.

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