The Cambridge Companion to Rossini
- Editor: Senici, Emanuele
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... — More…
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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.
