What is included with this book?
Preface | p. xi |
A brief overview of Rossini studies | p. xi |
Purpose and scope of the volume | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvi |
Chronology of Rossini's life | p. xvii |
Archives and collections, bibliographies and indexes, and catalogs | p. 1 |
Archives and collections | p. 1 |
Bibliographies and indexes | p. 6 |
Catalogs | p. 8 |
Correspondence and documents | p. 11 |
General collections | p. 11 |
Studies drawn from correspondence | p. 15 |
Letters organized by correspondent | p. 19 |
Rossini's style and language in correspondence | p. 31 |
Iconographies and exhibition catalogs | p. 32 |
Biographical iconography | p. 32 |
Scenographic iconography | p. 34 |
Exhibition catalogs | p. 35 |
Biographies and general studies of Rossini's career | p. 39 |
Nineteenth-century biographies and personal accounts | p. 39 |
Analyses of nineteenth-century commentaries | p. 49 |
Biographical studies published between 1900 and 1950 | p. 54 |
Biographical studies published between 1950 and the present | p. 60 |
Specialized studies | p. 66 |
Studies of Rossini's contemporaries | p. 74 |
Rossini's parents: Giuseppe and Anna (Guidarini) Rossini | p. 74 |
Rossini's wives: Isabella Colbran and Olympe Pélissier | p. 75 |
Rossini's acquaintances and colleagues | p. 79 |
Composers | p. 79 |
Impresarios and theatrical administrators | p. 92 |
Librettists | p. 94 |
Musicians | p. 101 |
Publishers | p. 102 |
Singers | p. 105 |
Other contemporaries | p. 113 |
Conference and congress reports | p. 114 |
Performance history, reception, and locative studies | p. 117 |
Performance history | p. 117 |
Reception | p. 118 |
Locative studies | p. 120 |
Rossini's historical position and influence | p. 162 |
General studies | p. 162 |
Contemporary assessments of Rossini | p. 163 |
Rossini's influence on the music of others | p. 165 |
Rossini and literature | p. 177 |
Commemorative publications and studies | p. 181 |
Studies of Rossini's music | p. 184 |
General studies | p. 184 |
Nineteenth-century commentaries | p. 186 |
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century commentaries | p. 187 |
Rossini's style and contemporary aesthetic debate | p. 192 |
Specialized studies | p. 201 |
Rossini's operas | p. 208 |
Reference works | p. 208 |
General studies | p. 209 |
Style and characteristics | p. 212 |
Studies of musical form and structures | p. 215 |
Vocal characteristics and interpretation | p. 221 |
Libretto studies | p. 226 |
Studies of versions | p. 229 |
The seria works | p. 230 |
The semiseria and buffa works | p. 233 |
Scenography | p. 237 |
"Rossini Renaissance": modern interpreters and productions | p. 239 |
Studies of individual operas | p. 244 |
Demetrio e Polibio | p. 244 |
La cambiale di matrimonio | p. 245 |
L'equivoco stravagante | p. 245 |
L'inganno felice | p. 246 |
Ciro in Babilonia, ossia La caduta di Baldassare | p. 247 |
La scala di seta | p. 247 |
La pietra del paragone | p. 247 |
L'occasione fa il ladro | p. 247 |
Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo | p. 248 |
Tancredi | p. 248 |
L'italiana in Algeri | p. 251 |
Aureliano in Palmira | p. 253 |
Il turco in Italia | p. 254 |
Sigismondo | p. 255 |
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra | p. 256 |
Torvaldo e Dorliska | p. 257 |
Il barbiere di Siviglia | p. 257 |
La gazzetta | p. 266 |
Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia | p. 267 |
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo | p. 271 |
La gazza ladra | p. 274 |
Armida | p. 275 |
Adelaide di Borgogna | p. 276 |
Mosè in Egitto | p. 277 |
Adina, ossia il Califfo di Bagdad | p. 280 |
Ricciardo e Zoraide | p. 280 |
Ermione | p. 281 |
Eduardo e Cristina | p. 282 |
La donna del lago | p. 285 |
Bianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre | p. 286 |
Maometto II | p. 286 |
Matilde di Shabran, ossia Bellezza, e cuor di ferro | p. 287 |
Zelmira | p. 288 |
Semiramide | p. 289 |
Il viaggio a Reims, ossia L'albergo del giglio d'oro | p. 292 |
Le siège de Corinthe (L'assedio di Corinto) | p. 293 |
Moïse et Pharaon (Mosè) | p. 294 |
Le comte Ory | p. 297 |
Guillaume Tell | p. 297 |
Pastiches | p. 303 |
Unfulfilled operatic plans | p. 304 |
Non-operatic works | p. 306 |
General studies | p. 306 |
Sacred music | p. 306 |
Cantatas, incidental music, hymns, choruses | p. 317 |
Choral music | p. 322 |
Miscellaneous vocal music | p. 322 |
Instrumental music | p. 323 |
Music for bands | p. 325 |
Péchés de vieillesse | p. 328 |
Spurious works/attributions | p. 332 |
Discographies and videographics | p. 333 |
Libretto collections and editions | p. 337 |
General collections | p. 337 |
Selected editions and translations | p. 338 |
Editions and editing practices | p. 339 |
Editing Rossini critical editions | p. 339 |
Specific issues in editing Rossini | p. 341 |
Rossini Internet resources | p. 344 |
Websites dedicated to Rossini | p. 344 |
Opera festival websites | p. 346 |
Appendix | p. 347 |
Catalog of Rossini's compositions | p. 347 |
Editions and facsimiles | p. 363 |
Critical editions of librettos | p. 366 |
Locations of premieres of Rossini's operas | p. 369 |
Rossini's librettists | p. 371 |
Notes | p. 372 |
Index of authors, editors, and translators | p. 374 |
Subject index | p. 381 |
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