The Cambridge Companion to Rossini
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- Editor: Emanuele Senici, University of Oxford
- Date Published: April 2004
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521001953
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This 2004 Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini's life, his world, and his works: biography and reception; words and music; representative operas; and performance. Within these sections accessible chapters, written by a team of specialists, examine Rossini's life and career; the reception of his music in the nineteenth century and today; the librettos and their authors; the dramaturgy of the operas; and Rossini's non-operatic works. Additional chapters centre on key individual operas chosen for their historical importance or position in the present repertoire, and include Tancredi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Semiramide, and Guillaume Tell. The last section, Performance, focuses on the history of Rossini's operas from the viewpoint of singing and staging, as well as the influence of editorial work on contemporary performance practice.
Read more- First accessible overview of Rossini, his career, and his operatic world
- Written by a team of opera specialists, but in accessible and introductory language
- Valuable for students and opera enthusiasts alike
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'This scholarly, extensive overview of Rossini's operas, liturgical works and piano and vocal works reflects the dramatic turnaround in appreciation that has occurred in the last fifty years or so.' Music Web International
See more reviews'…offers many hours of thoroughly delectable and mostly instructive reading.' Nineteenth-Century Music Review
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- Date Published: April 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521001953
- length: 282 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 35 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface and abbreviations
1. Introduction: Rossini's operatic operas Emanuele Senici
Part I. Biography and Reception:
2. Rossini's life Richard Osborne
3. Rossini and France Benjamin Walton
4. The Rossini Renaissance Charles S. Brauner
Part II. Words and Music:
5. Librettos and librettists Paulo Fabbri
6. Compositional methods Philip Gossett
7. The dramaturgy of the operas Marco Beghelli
8. Melody and ornamentation Damien Colas
9. Off the stage Richard Osborne
Part III. Representative Operas:
10. Tancredi and Semiramide Heather Hadlock
11. Il barbiere di Siviglia Janet Johnson
12. Guillaume Tell Cormac Newark
Part IV. Performance:
13. Singing Rossini Leonella Grasso Caprioli
14. Staging Rossini Mercedes Viale Ferrero
15. Editing Rossini Patricia B. Brauner
List of works
Bibliography
Index.
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