Volume 53, Number 15 · October 5, 2006
Opera: Follow the Music
By Charles Rosen
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
by Philip Gossett
University of Chicago Press, 675 pp., $35.00
Divas and Scholars is somewhat more about scholars than about divas (although there is enough about divas to satisfy those whose fancy lies in that direction). It deals with Italian opera of the early nineteenth century—that is, the work of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and the early operas of Verdi, but it allows considerations of earlier and later periods, other national styles, and general matters of musical style. The author writes that it 'is about performing nineteenth-century Italian opera,' but we are given much more.
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