Musical Times, April 1st, 2006
Beyond the mountains Landscape and gender in Italian opera: the Alpine virgin from Bellini to Puccini Emanuele Senici Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2005); x, 356pp; £50, $90. ISBN 13 978 0 521 83437.
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE with the sound of virgins. Not all hills, to be sure, but specifically the Alps, though virgins were also transplanted to California where the Sierra Nevada would remind them of home. And not all virgins lived at a high altitude. As Senici concedes, 'the nineteenth-century lyric stage was densely populated by virgins who live happily in flat or modestly undulated lan...
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