Italian Opera Singing at the Time of Verismo

Introduction

1 Changing Italian Opera: Verismo, Singers and the Foreigners
Framing Verismo
The Features of Verismo Singing: New Demands on Modern Singers
The French, Changes in Dramaturgy and Librettos
Winds of Change from the North
The Anti-Modern Crusade of Vocal Pedagogues

2 Vocal Registers: Defining Key Terms
The Concept of Vocal Register
Register Division Theories
Survey of Key Historical Vocal Treatises
Aesthetics of Vocal Registration in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century

3 The Components of Modern Singing
A Few Essentials of Modern Singing
Bel Canto Encounters Verismo: Nellie Melba versus Emma Carelli
More on the Passaggio: Mattia Battistini versus Titta Ruffo and the Veristizzazione of Bel Canto
The Granitic Diction of the Modern Singer

4 The Pathway to Modern Singing: The Tenor at the Time of Caruso
In Search of Modernity
Caruso's 'Naturalness' and 'Spontaneity': Between Production and Reception
The Top C 'from the Chest': Between the Myth and the Recorded Evidence
Some Preliminary Conclusions on the Natural Singing of Caruso

5 Italian Sopranos and the Disruption of Tradition
The Verismo Sopranos Eugenia Burzio and Emma Carelli
The Chest Voice on Record
The Medium Register: Vocal Modulations and the Spoken Theatre
The Upper Register

Conclusions

Bibliography
Discography
Index

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bel canto; Romanticism; Enrico Caruso; Titta Ruffo; Emma Carelli; Eugenia Burzio; Western art music; Operatic singing; Music culture; Opera history; homogeneous; Vocality