This collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini's work and his world. Chapters by specialists chart the course of Rossini's life and career through analysis of his reception; operatic texts and non-operatic works; and the individual works: Tancredi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Semiramide, and Guillaume Tell.
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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
'...offers many hours of thoroughly delectable and mostly instructive reading.' Nineteenth-Century Music Review
'...offers many hours of thoroughly delectable and mostly instructive reading.' Nineteenth-Century Music Review
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The Cambridge Companion to Rossini 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, his working practices, and his world: biography and reception; words and music; representative operas; and performance. Accessible chapters, by a team of specialists, chart the course of Rossini's life and career; reception; operatic texts; non-operatic works; and editing. Chapters also centre on individual works: Tancredi, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Semiramide, and Guillaume Tell.
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'Since the death of Napoleon, another man has appeared who is talked about every day in Moscow as in Naples, in London as in Vienna, in Paris as in Calcutta. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
versi lirici, donna del lago, opere serie, saggiatore musicale, pietra del paragone, skeleton score, gazza ladra, versi sciolti, messe solennelle, tanti palpiti, alla patria, seconda donna, opere buffe, dramma giocoso, rivista musicale italiana, secco recitative, opera seria, spoken theatre, staging manuals, tragic finale, opera buffa, accompanied recitative, serious operas, performing forces, autograph score Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Guillaume Tell, San Carlo, New York, Paris Conservatoire, Rossini Renaissance, Alessandro Sanquirico, Fondazione Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, Gaetano Rossi, Isabella Colbran, Philip Gossett, Andrea Nozzari, Count Almaviva, Giovanni David, Giuseppe Bertoja, Guglielmo Tell, Laure Cinti-Damoreau, Maggio Musicale, Naples Conservatoire, Don Carlos, Don Ramiro, Ferdinando Paer, Francesco Bagnara, Giuseppe Borsato, Paolo Landriani New!
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'Since the death of Napoleon, another man has appeared who is talked about every day in Moscow as in Naples, in London as in Vienna, in Paris as in Calcutta. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
versi lirici, donna del lago, opere serie, saggiatore musicale, pietra del paragone, skeleton score, gazza ladra, versi sciolti, messe solennelle, tanti palpiti, alla patria, seconda donna, opere buffe, dramma giocoso, rivista musicale italiana, secco recitative, opera seria, spoken theatre, staging manuals, tragic finale, opera buffa, accompanied recitative, serious operas, performing forces, autograph score Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Guillaume Tell, San Carlo, New York, Paris Conservatoire, Rossini Renaissance, Alessandro Sanquirico, Fondazione Rossini, Rossini Opera Festival, Gaetano Rossi, Isabella Colbran, Philip Gossett, Andrea Nozzari, Count Almaviva, Giovanni David, Giuseppe Bertoja, Guglielmo Tell, Laure Cinti-Damoreau, Maggio Musicale, Naples Conservatoire, Don Carlos, Don Ramiro, Ferdinando Paer, Francesco Bagnara, Giuseppe Borsato, Paolo Landriani New!
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