Opera Acts: Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 1107004268
- ISBN-13
- 9781107004269
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 279
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01-15
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Karen Henson
Description
Karen Henson explores a wealth of new historical material about singers and opera performance in the late nineteenth century.
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