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Divas and Scholars : Performing Italian Opera by Bellini, Vincenzo;Donizetti, Gaetano;Gossett, Philip;Rossini, Gioacchino;Verdi, Giuseppe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas.  Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance?

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Author

Bellini, Vincenzo;Donizetti, Gaetano;Gossett, Philip;Rossini, Gioacchino;Verdi, Giuseppe

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226304885

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, History, Arts