Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett
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Book Reviews of Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
Book Review: Marvelous!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Who would have believed that such a scholarly book could be so interesting, so readable, so enjoyable? Who would have thought that a truly erudite scholar could have so much personality? This marvelous tome is not only a torrent of fascinating information, it is a real page ripper. GET IT!!
Howard Bushnell, author of Maria Malibran, A biography of the Singer.
Book Review: gossett-opera
Summary: 5 Stars
We adore this book! Mr. Gossett, a professor in our home town of Chicago, is brilliant. The scholarship is first rate, the writing is user-friendly without talking down to you. The subject is incredibly well covered - it's interesting, enlightening, fascinating and really worth it! Highly recommended!
Paul Vermel and Carolyn Paulin (musicians both)
Book Review: Precious
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a book every opera conductor should read. A lot of information and beautifully written by one of the greatest opera scholars.Book Review: Score settling
Summary: 2 Stars
There's quite a bit of petty score settling in this book. "What did the New York Times critic mean when he said that Semiramide ... put exhaustive scholarship before operatic effectiveness"? I don't know, but I'm not interested in the author's grievances about journalists' criticism.
Another example of irrelevancy: did you know that Verdi wrote Elvira's cavatina in Ernani on 16-stave **vertical** paper? Now you do. Also, you certainly know, and if you don't, shame on you, that "music paper was not supplied to composers in individual leaves, but rather in the form of gatherings of bifolios."