ITAL 10.04 Divas in Italian Culture

This course will explore how divas – supremely skilled female singers - have been represented, imagined, and feared in Italian culture from the middle ages to the present day.  Our texts will include writings by and about divas, songs and opera librettos, videos of live musical performances, photographs, and paintings. Through this blend of scholarly and popular media, we will explore the cultural and social functions of the diva, as well as how divas themselves negotiate their careers in the public eye. Authors and composers will include Petrarch, Boccaccio, Isabella Andreini, Margherita Costa, Giambattista Marino, Claudio Monteverdi, Giuseppe Verdi.

Instructor

See department website

Prerequisite

Italian 8 or 9 or permission of instructor

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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