Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage
by
Dr Suzanne Aspden
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
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 misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in...