Bewitching Russian opera : the tsarina from state to stage

Title	Bewitching Russian opera : the tsarina from state to stage
Author	Inna Naroditskaya
Imprint	Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012
Descript	xvi, 401 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm

CONTENT

Overture: Russia's imperial prima donnas -- Russian Minervas staging empire -- The play of possibilities: serfs enacting aristocrats, countesses playing peasants -- Catherine the empress(ario): making tales into princely operas -- Oleg at the roots of Russian historical opera -- Interlude: to patria and nation -- Ruslan and Liudmila: the princess, the witch, and the dwarf -- Rusalka: water, power, and women -- Mlada and the spellbinding female circle -- Sadko: he is the hero! -- The inescapable queen

Opera -- Russia -- 18th century Opera -- Russia -- 19th century Empresses -- Russia -- History -- 18th century Women opera producers and directors -- Russia -- History -- 18th century Kings and rulers in opera Women in opera

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