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- Title
From prima donna to teacher. Two female pioneers in singing education in the Nineteenth Century: Virginia Boccabadati and Matilde Esteban.
- Authors
del Coral Morales, María; Castillo Ferreira, Mercedes
- Abstract
During the 19th-century, the teaching of singing became a career opportunity for the women who had worked in the lyrical stage. The core objective of this article is to present two prime donne who, after building a career as successful professional singers, became singing teachers and were pioneers in publishing their methods for female voice education. This research is based on the review and analysis of documentation, mostly historical. By looking at the biographies of the Italian singer, Virginia Boccabadati (1830-1922) and the Spanish singer, Matilde Esteban (1841-1915), we can discover the context in which their treatises were published and the image they offer of woman as a singer and as a student. By choosing women who were each other's contemporary, but from different countries, helps us to observe the obvious points related to gender determinants that their treatises had in common.
- Subjects
SINGING; VOCATIONAL guidance; NINETEENTH century; WOMEN singers; TEACHERS; FEMALES
- Publication
Géneros: Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 2022, Vol 11, Issue 2, p100
- ISSN
2014-3613
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17583/generos.9045