Verdi’s Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz

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    This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity in the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Every used to be an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career don’t have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the affect of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect whilst his success and regulate increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not face up to scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide recent operatic criticism and at the back of-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.


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