Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century
by
Mary F. McVicker
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The history of women in the opera is a grand story. Women were singers and patrons, of course, but from opera’s beginnings in Renaissance Italy, they were also opera composers and librettists. At first it was exclusively for the nobility. In the 19th century, with the emergence of the middle class...