{"id":48700,"date":"2016-08-16T18:38:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T18:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48700"},"modified":"2016-08-16T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T18:38:44","slug":"half-caste-actresses-in-colonial-brazilian-opera-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48700","title":{"rendered":"Half-Caste Actresses in Colonial Brazilian Opera Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/ltr.2012.0016\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Half-Caste Actresses in Colonial Brazilian Opera Houses<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/519\" target=\"_blank\">Latin American Theatre Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/25874\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2012<\/a><br \/>\npages 57-71<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/ltr.2012.0016\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/ltr.2012.0016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fcsh-unl.academia.edu\/RosanaMarrecoBrescia\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rosana Marreco Brescia<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Universidade Nova de Lisboa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Operatic and theatrical historians in both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portugal\" target=\"_blank\">Portugal<\/a> frequently mention that around the last quarter of the 18th century, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_I_of_Portugal\" target=\"_blank\">Queen Maria I<\/a> forbade women to perform on public stages in Portugal. However, it seems that the impresarios and owners of opera houses in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonial_Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">colonial Brazil <\/a>were unaware of this prohibition, since I have found several references to actresses performing in many of the permanent theatres at the end of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century. The great majority of these actresses were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=440\" target=\"_blank\">half-caste<\/a> women. The most remarkable example is the case of soprano <a href=\"https:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joaquina_Lapinha\" target=\"_blank\">Joaquina Lapinha<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prima_donna\" target=\"_blank\"><em>prima donna<\/em><\/a> of the Opera Nova in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a>, and probably the only native Luso-American singer to perform in a European theatre in the 18th century. This article considers the employment of actresses in the opera houses of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A3o_Paulo\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ouro_Preto\" target=\"_blank\">Vila Rica<\/a>, Rio de Janeiro, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Porto_Alegre\" target=\"_blank\">Porto Alegre<\/a>, showing how the impresarios of these public theatres managed to provide their companies with the necessary human resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half-Caste Actresses in Colonial Brazilian Opera Houses Latin American Theatre Review Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 57-71 DOI: 10.1353\/ltr.2012.0016 Rosana Marreco Brescia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Operatic and theatrical historians in both Brazil and Portugal frequently mention that around the last quarter of the 18th century, Queen Maria I forbade women to perform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,83,21,459,8,25],"tags":[24768,24769,24770,24767],"class_list":["post-48700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-joaquina-lapinha","tag-latin-american-theatre-review","tag-opera-nova","tag-rosana-marreco-brescia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48701,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700\/revisions\/48701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}