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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘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
Book Description
A 2004 collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire.
About the Author
Emanuele Senici is University Lecturer in Music at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. He has published in a number of journals and contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Verdi (2003). He is also co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal, 2003.
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