Singing Sappho
Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
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Chapter 1 History’s Muse: The Spectacle of Poetic Improvisation
Chapter 2 Corinna’s Crown: Improvisation and Authority in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims
Chapter 3 Divinely Inspired: Incantation and the Making of Melody in Bellini’s Norma
Chapter 4 Saffo’s Lyre: Improvising Operatic Authorship
Chapter 5 A Sapphic Orpheus: Pauline Viardot and the Sexual Politics of Operatic Collaboration
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Modern Language Association: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies
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