Divas and scholars : performing Italian opera / Philip Gossett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gossett, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Opera--Production and direction.

Operas--Performances.

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (698 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the

Contents:

Prologue. Mare o monti : two summer festivals

Knowing the score. Setting the stage ; Transmission versus tradition ; Scandal and scholarship ; The romance of the critical edition

Intermezzo. Scholars and performers : the case of Semiramide

Performing the opera. Choosing a version ; Serafin's scissors ; Ornamenting Rossini ; Higher and lower : transposing Bellini and Donizetti ; Words and music : texts and translations ; Instruments old and new ; From the score to the stage

Coda. Two kings head North : transforming Italian opera in Scandinavia.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [621]-642) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611956905

9781281956903

1281956902

9780226304885

0226304884

OCLC:

476228143