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Judit Zsovár. Anna Maria Strada, Prima Donna of G. F. Handel
About the author
About the book
Citability of the eBook
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Prelude
Chapter One: Early Years
Venice
The new singing style
The 1720/1721 season at Sant’Angelo
Finances
Milan, Livorno, and Lucca
Chapter Two: First Maturity
Naples, the operatic capital of Europe
Strada on the stage
Becoming the leading soprano
Chapter Three: Successor to the ‘Rival Queens’
First impressions in London
Surpassing the predecessors
Social, political, and financial matters
Chapter Four: In the Midst of Operatic Business
Queen of revivals
Heroine of pasticci
Chapter Five: The Composer’s Faithful Soprano
The first original roles
A multi-faceted vocal personality
Reinventing Strada
Chapter Six: The Prima Donna of Oratorios
Esther and Deborah
From Athalia to Bellezza
Chapter Seven: Back to Italy
The first San Carlo season
The last active years
Appendix. Strada’s London Season Schedules
Bibliography. 17th- to 19th-Century Sources. Musical Sources
Libretti
Treatises, Letters, and Other Sources
Secondary Literature
Отрывок из книги
Judit Zsovár
Anna Maria Strada,
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19 William Dale, Tschudi the Harpsichord Maker (London: Constable and Company, 1913), 32‒34.
20 Anne Schnoebelen, ‘Pistocchi, Francesco Antonio Mamiliano [‘Il Pistocchino’]’, in GMO, accessed 11 November 2014; John H. Roberts, ‘Handel and the Shepherds of Ansbach’, in Words on Music: Essays in Honor of Andrew Porter on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, ed. David Rosen/Claire Brook (Hillsdale: Pendragon Press, 2003), 232.
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