{"product_id":"9781316188668","title":"Opera Acts: Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century","description":"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 '90s, 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130721812720,"sku":"9781316188668","price":59.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316188668_p0.jpg?v=1763706748","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316188668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}