Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age

by Patricia Howard

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Through a coincidence of time and place, Gaetano Guadagni was on the forefront of the heroic opera reform, and many forward-thinking composers of the age created roles for him. Author Patricia Howard reveals that Guadagni may have been the only singer of the time fully able...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199365202
• ISBN13: 9780199365203
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"