Divas and scholars : performing Italian opera /

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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 person...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gossett, Philip (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
Chicago : [2008]
Subjects:
Opera > Performance
Opera > Production and direction
Opera
Operas > Performances
Opéra > Exécution
Opéra > Production et mise en scène
Opéra
Opéra > Exécution
Opéra > Production et mise en scène
Opéra
Opéras > Interprétation
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera
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Table of 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
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PROLOGUE
  • PART I. Knowing the Score
  • INTERMEZZO
  • PART II. Performing the Opera
  • CODA

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