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Bewitching Russian opera the tsarina from state to stage

Title: Bewitching Russian opera [electronic resource] : the tsarina from state to stage / Inna Naroditskaya.
Author: Naroditskaya, Inna, 1955-
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description

1 online resource (xvi, 401 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Bewitching Russian opera (Online)

Alternative Title

Bewitching Russian opera (Online)

Subject

Opera > Russia > 18th century
Opera > Russia > 19th century
Empresses > Russia > History > 18th century
Women opera producers and directors > Russia > History > 18th century
Kings and rulers in opera
Women in opera

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-380) and index.

Access (note)

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Contents

Overture : Russia's imperial prima donnas -- Russian Minervas staging empire -- The play of possibilities : serfs enacting aristocrats, countesses playing peasants -- Catherine the empress(ario) : making tales into princely operas -- Oleg at the roots of Russian historical opera -- Interlude : to patria and nation -- Ruslan and Liudmila: the princess, the witch, and the dwarf -- Rusalka : water, power, and women -- Mlada and the spellbinding female circle -- Sadko : he is the hero! -- The inescapable queen.

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