Opera Acts

Opera 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...