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Arguments:
in the lyrics.
- Cherubino’s arias are composed for a mezzo soprano, musical and compositional
voice-wise), and deliver more smooth arias that include a lot more emotional
expression and soft spokenness than general male roles would get in their arias.
Conclusion:
- Cherubino’s characteristics
- Adolescence
- Young
- Love-longing
- Arias
Figaro.
- In the Non so piu (an aria of Cherubino’s) excerpt from Miller’s production of Le
portrayed very playful, sparkling with desires and youthfulness, almost flirty
- Booth, Alan. Se x and Social Participation, American Sociological Review. Lincoln,
University of Nebraska Press, 1972,
- Brown-Montesano, Kristi. Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas.
- Carter, Tim. W.A Mozart: 'Le Nozze Di Figaro.'. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1987.
containing the Italian text, with an English translation, and the Music of all of the
- Dellamora, Richard. "Mozart and the Politics of Intimacy: The Marriage of Figaro
in Toronto, Paris and New York." In The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and
Sexual Difference, edited by Richard Dellamora and Daniel Fischlin. New York:
- Hadlock, Heather. "The Career of Cherubino, Or the Trouser Role Grows Up." In
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Chicago.