Louise K Stein

Gebundenes Buch

The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati

Gaspar de Haro Y Guzmán and Opera in the Early Modern Spanish Orbit

Beschreibung

In this book, author Louise K. Stein analyzes early modern opera as appreciated and produced by Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (1629-87), Marqués de Heliche and del Carpio and a distinguished patron of the arts in Madrid, Rome, and Naples. It also reveals his lasting legacy in the Americas during a crucial period for the growth and development of opera and the history of singing.

Autor

Louise K. Stein is Professor of Musicology, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan. She has contributed critical editions of the first opera of the Americas, La púrpura de la rosa (1999) and the first extant Spanish opera, Celos aun del aire matan (2014). Her first book Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Spain (OUP 1993) received the First Book Prize from the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. In 1996, she was awarded the Noah Greenberg Award by the American Musicological Society for distinguished contributions to the study and performance of early music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 792
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1111g
• ISBN-13: 9780197681848
• ISBN-10: 0197681840
• Artikelnr.: 69303647