The Castrato and His Wife
(Sprache: Englisch)
The tale of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, 18th century castrato, celebrity, and heart-throb, and his elopement and love affair with his teenage pupil Doroethea Maunsell, a story that opens up a new history of attitudes towards sex and celebrity in Georgian...
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The tale of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, 18th century castrato, celebrity, and heart-throb, and his elopement and love affair with his teenage pupil Doroethea Maunsell, a story that opens up a new history of attitudes towards sex and celebrity in Georgian Britain, and explores questions about the meaning of marriage that resonate in our own time.
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The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English composer Thomas Arne, he popularized Italian opera, translating it for English audiences and making it accessible with his own compositions which he performed in London's pleasure gardens. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a castrato. Women flocked to his concerts and found him irresistible. His singing pupil, Dorothea Maunsell, a teenage girl from a genteel Irish family, eloped with him. There was a huge scandal; her father persecuted them mercilessly. Tenducci's wife joined him at his concerts, achieving a status as a performer she could never have dreamed of as a respectable girl. She also wrote a sensational account of their love affair, an early example of a teenage novel. Embroiled in debt, the Tenduccis fled to Italy, and the marriage collapsed when she fell in love with another man. There followed a highly publicized and unique marriage annulment case in the London courts. Everything hinged on the status of the marriage; whether the husband was capable of consummation, and what exactly had happened to him as a small boy in a remote Italian hill village decades before.
Ranging from the salons of princes and the grand opera houses of Europe to the remote hill towns of Tuscany, the unconventional love story of the castrato and his wife affords a fascinating insight into the world of opera and the history of sex and marriage in Georgian Britain, while also exploring questions about the meaning of marriage that continue to resonate in our own time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Castrato and His Wife “
- Prelude
- 1: The Pig Man Arrives in Monte San Savino
- 2: Schooling Angels in Naples
- 3: The Castrato in London
- 4: Fancying Tenducci
- 5: A Dublin Scuffle
- 6: The Elopement
- 7: Married Life
- 8: The Trial
- 9: Legacy
- Coda
- Notes
- A Note on Sources
- Appendix: Deposition of Tomasso Massi
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Helen Berry
Helen Berry is Reader in Early Modern History at Newcastle University. She is the author of numerous articles on the history of eighteenth-century Britain, and is the co-editor (with Elizabeth Foyster) of The Family in Early Modern England (2007). This is her second book. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Helen Berry
- 2012, 336 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019965526X
- ISBN-13: 9780199655267
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Helen Berry's history of the famous 18th-century castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci and his young wife, Dorothea, is steeped in its period, but has the natural allure of a novel. Sally Cousins, The Sunday Telegraph {Seven}
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