ISBN-13: 9781138366015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.
ISBN-13: 9781138366015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.
First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and composing. It draws mainly on Italian critical and aesthetic writing dating from the end of an era that was still dominated by the Italian bel canto.