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03402aam a2200529 i 4500 001 9DB7F1CCE96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 170706t20182018enka b 001 0ceng c 010 $a 2017032555 020 $a 1138735701 020 $a 9781138735705 035 $a (OCoLC)993134491 040 $a PUL $b eng $e rda $c PUL $d OCLCF $d WCH $d CHVBK $d DLC $d OCL $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- 050 00 $a ML410.V4 $b E44 2018 082 00 $a 782.1092 $2 23 100 1 $a Ellsmore, Caroline Anne, $e author. 245 10 $a Verdi's exceptional women : $b Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz / $c Caroline Anne Ellsmore. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, $c 2018. 300 $a x, 235 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi's attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi's professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potesta, in the context of women's changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi's creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi's career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi's past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi's shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic `divas' do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz's value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time. 600 10 $a Verdi, Giuseppe, $d 1813-1901 $x Relations with women. 600 10 $a Strepponi, Giuseppina. 600 10 $a Stolz, Teresa, $d 1834-1902. 600 17 $a Stolz, Teresa, $d 1834-1902. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01952179 600 17 $a Strepponi, Giuseppina. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00182925 600 17 $a Verdi, Giuseppe, $d 1813-1901. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00033445 600 17 $a Stolz, Theresa $d 1834-1902 $2 gnd 600 17 $a Strepponi, Giuseppina $d 1817-1897 $2 gnd 600 17 $a Verdi, Giuseppe $d 1813-1901 $2 gnd 650 0 $a Composers $z Italy $v Biography. 650 0 $a Sopranos (Singers) $z Italy $v Biography. 650 7 $a Composers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00871620 650 7 $a Relations with women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354410 650 7 $a Sopranos (Singers) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01126730 651 7 $a Italy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204565 650 7 $a Sopranistin $2 gnd 651 7 $a Italien $2 gnd 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011649.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9DB7F1CCE96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search