Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Earliest Virtuosi
- 2 Women’s Voices
- 3 Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842): Médée
- 4 Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868): Armida
- 5 Assoluta Manquée (I)
- 6 Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826): Oberon
- 7 Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848): Anna Bolena
- 8 Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835): Norma
- 9 Donizetti (1797–1848): Gemma di Vergy
- 10 Donizetti (1797–1848): Roberto Devereux
- 11 Time of Transition
- 12 Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901): Nabucco
- 13 Verdi (1813–1901): Macbeth
- > 14 Assoluta Manquée (II)
- 15 Voices from the Past
- 16 Conclusion
- Appendices
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index