Participation of Rosana Marreco Brescia (GMPM) in the XI SEdeM Congress

The Spanish Society of Musicology held the XI SEdeM Congress from 23rd to 26th October in Elche (Alicante, Spain), in which a communication by Rosana Marreco Brescia from the Music in the Modern Period Group took part.

With the paper Adelina Patti: «trending topic» del mundo operistico decimonónico y su repercusión, Rosana Marreco Brescia addressed opera as a means of providing unthinkable scenarios for ordinary women, such as financial independence, sexual freedom or access to education and mobility. Taking the case of the singer Adelina Patti, considered by many to be the greatest soprano of her generation, the researcher proposed an approach to the repercussions of Patti’s career and private life in Rio de Janeiro. Although the prima donna never set foot on Brazil’s most important opera stage, the country’s press never failed to report on her successes around the world.