Divas and scholars
Subtitle: performing Italian opera
By: Philip Gossett.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 675
Subjects: Opera; Opera -- Production and direction; Opera -- Performance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. Mare o monti : two summer festivals; title: Knowing the score. Setting the stage ; Transmission versus tradition ; Scandal and scholarship ; The romance of the critical edition; title: Intermezzo. Scholars and performers : the case of Semiramide; title: 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; title: Coda. Kings head North : Italian opera in Scandinavia.