Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)
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The Case for Puccini
March 27, 2003
Puccini: A Biography
by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Puccini: His Life and Works
by Julian Budden
Puccini: His International Art
by Michele Girardi, translated from the Italian by Laura Basini
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The Music of Carl Dahlhaus: An Exchange
April 26, 1990
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Up from Beethoven
October 26, 1989
Nineteenth-Century Music by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by J. Bradford Robinson
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Operamania
October 13, 1988
A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera
by Peter Conrad
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Let Handel Be Handel
March 17, 1988
Handel’s Operas: 17041726 by Winton Dean, by John Merrill Knapp
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Making a Comeback
March 31, 1983
Donizetti and His Operas by William Ashbrook