{"product_id":"9781108723343","title":"Opera Acts : Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Opera)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOpera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45414098272335,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1645.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9781108723343-1.jpg?v=1780449506","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781108723343","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}