LEADER 03078nam 22006614a 450 001 9910454150903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95690-2 010 $a9786611956905 010 $a0-226-30488-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226304885 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579140 035 $a(EBL)408240 035 $a(OCoLC)476228143 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140198 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11911772 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140198 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10052672 035 $a(PQKB)10706514 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122465 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408240 035 $a(DE-B1597)523137 035 $a(OCoLC)1055285481 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226304885 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408240 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266012 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195690 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579140 100 $a20051103d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDivas and scholars$b[electronic resource] $eperforming Italian opera /$fPhilip Gossett 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (698 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-30482-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [621]-642) and indexes. 327 $aPrologue. Mare o monti : two summer festivals -- Knowing the score. Setting the stage ; Transmission versus tradition ; Scandal and scholarship ; The romance of the critical edition -- Intermezzo. Scholars and performers : the case of Semiramide -- Performing the opera. Choosing a version ; Serafin's scissors ; Ornamenting Rossini ; Higher and lower : transposing Bellini and Donizetti ; Words and music : texts and translations ; Instruments old and new ; From the score to the stage -- Coda. Two kings head North : transforming Italian opera in Scandinavia. 330 $aWinner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett's personal experiences of triumphant?and even failed?performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the 606 $aOpera 606 $aOpera$xProduction and direction 606 $aOperas$xPerformances 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOpera. 615 0$aOpera$xProduction and direction. 615 0$aOperas$xPerformances. 676 $a782.10945 700 $aGossett$b Philip$0183944 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454150903321 996 $aDivas and scholars$953417 997 $aUNINA