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Italian opera singer (soprano)
- coloratura soprano
- Kingdom of Italy
- opera singer, music teacher
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Royal Opera House
2016-04-05 16:00:09
The rise and fall of opera's prima donnas
Portrait of Fanny Tacchinardi-Persiani in the role of Amina in Bellini's opera La sonnambula by Karl Briullov (1799–1852), 1834 Lucy Ashton, the heroine of Walter Scott ’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor , is a literary portrait of repressed femininity. Towards the end of the book Scott describes her the funeral in ‘the same churchyard to which she had so lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be testified by her lifeless and passive remains’. Paradoxically, the operatic embodiment of Lucy Ashton for the audiences of the day called for an interpreter of very different ilk: the prima donna. During the 1830s, prima donnas were the most visible exemplars of female achievement in public life. With the disappearance of the castrati near the beginning of the 19th century, and before the rise of the modern tenor in the late 1830s, women (mainly […]
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