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Cowgill & Poriss - The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century
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The Arts of the Prima Donna assembles a star-studded yet well-balanced cast of contributors, whose essays combine theoretical approaches to text and narrative, and current theory on gender, performativity, and the commodification of the female body, with the growing understanding of the lives, careers, and performances of the female opera singer.
Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss
PART ONE: PROMOTION AND IMAGE-MAKING
Chapter 1. Divas and Sonnets: Poetry for Female Singers in Teatri arti e letteratura
Francesco Izzo
Chapter 2. Idealizing the Prima Donna in Mid-Victorian London
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Chapter 3. Prima Donnas and the Performance of Altruism
Hilary Poriss
Chapter 4. Staging Scandal with Salome and Elektra
Joy H. Calico
Chapter 5. Screening the Diva
Mary Simonson
Chapter 6. The Prima Donna's Art of Politics
James R. Currie
INTERLUDE 1: The Prima Donna Creates
Julian Rushton
PART TWO: FANTASY AND REPRESENTATION
Chapter 7. Gautier's Diva: The First French Use of the Word
James Q. Davies
Chapter 8. Artistic Experiment and the Reevaluation of the Prima Donna in George Moore's Evelyn Innes
Grace Kehler
Chapter 9. Ars moriendi: Reflections on the Death of Mimi
Helen Greenwald
Chapter 10. Lakme's Echoing Jewels
Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
INTERLUDE 2: Breath's End: Opera and Mortality
Terry Castle
PART THREE: CULTURES OF CELEBRITY
Chapter 11. Attitudes with a Shawl: Performance, Femininity, and Spectatorship at the Italian Opera in Early Nineteenth-Century London
Rachel Cowgill
Chapter 12. From Diva to Drama Queen
Tracy C. Davis
Chapter 13. The Prima Donna as Opera Impresario: Emma Carelli and the Teatro Costanzi, 1911-1926
Susan Rutherford
Chapter 14. In Imitation of My Negro Mammy: Alma Gluck and the American Prima Donna
Susan C. Cook
Chapter 15. The Finest Voice of the Century: Clara Butt and Other Concert-Hall and Drawing-Room Singers of Fin-de-siecle Britain
Sophie Fuller
Chapter 16. Galli-Curci Comes to Town: The Prima Donna's Presence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Alexandra Wilson
Index
CONTENTS
IntroductionRachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss
PART ONE: PROMOTION AND IMAGE-MAKING
Chapter 1. Divas and Sonnets: Poetry for Female Singers in Teatri arti e letteratura
Francesco Izzo
Chapter 2. Idealizing the Prima Donna in Mid-Victorian London
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Chapter 3. Prima Donnas and the Performance of Altruism
Hilary Poriss
Chapter 4. Staging Scandal with Salome and Elektra
Joy H. Calico
Chapter 5. Screening the Diva
Mary Simonson
Chapter 6. The Prima Donna's Art of Politics
James R. Currie
INTERLUDE 1: The Prima Donna Creates
Julian Rushton
PART TWO: FANTASY AND REPRESENTATION
Chapter 7. Gautier's Diva: The First French Use of the Word
James Q. Davies
Chapter 8. Artistic Experiment and the Reevaluation of the Prima Donna in George Moore's Evelyn Innes
Grace Kehler
Chapter 9. Ars moriendi: Reflections on the Death of Mimi
Helen Greenwald
Chapter 10. Lakme's Echoing Jewels
Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
INTERLUDE 2: Breath's End: Opera and Mortality
Terry Castle
PART THREE: CULTURES OF CELEBRITY
Chapter 11. Attitudes with a Shawl: Performance, Femininity, and Spectatorship at the Italian Opera in Early Nineteenth-Century London
Rachel Cowgill
Chapter 12. From Diva to Drama Queen
Tracy C. Davis
Chapter 13. The Prima Donna as Opera Impresario: Emma Carelli and the Teatro Costanzi, 1911-1926
Susan Rutherford
Chapter 14. In Imitation of My Negro Mammy: Alma Gluck and the American Prima Donna
Susan C. Cook
Chapter 15. The Finest Voice of the Century: Clara Butt and Other Concert-Hall and Drawing-Room Singers of Fin-de-siecle Britain
Sophie Fuller
Chapter 16. Galli-Curci Comes to Town: The Prima Donna's Presence in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Alexandra Wilson
Index
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