Auteur: Hilary Poriss

This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter inve …

Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville surveys the opera’s fascinating performance history, mapping out the myriad changes that have affected the work since its premiere, exploring many of the per …

Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville surveys the opera’s fascinating performance history, mapping out the myriad changes that have affected the work since its premiere, exploring many of the per …

Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And for contemporary audiences, many of these characters–and the celebrated women …

This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter inve …