The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage

by Suzanne Aspden

Book Overview

The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108829244
• ISBN13: 9781108829243
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"