TY - BOOK ID - 77874001 TI - Divas and scholars PY - 2006 SN - 1281956902 9786611956905 0226304884 9780226304885 9781281956903 0226304825 9780226304823 0226304825 9780226304823 6611956905 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Opera. KW - Opera KW - Operas KW - Opera direction KW - Opera production KW - Comic opera KW - Lyric drama KW - Opera, Comic KW - Drama KW - Dramatic music KW - Singspiel KW - Production and direction. KW - Performances. KW - Direction KW - Production and direction KW - History and criticism KW - Performance. KW - Singers KW - Women singers KW - Opéra KW - Chanteurs KW - Chanteuses KW - Production et mise en scène KW - Interprétation KW - Italy KW - 19th century KW - Performance KW - opera music, musical criticism, composers, personal experiences, performing arts, divas, singing, operatic performances, musicians, scandals, italy, stage production, theater, social history, 19th century, scores, scholars, conductors, performers, critical edition, ornamentation, vocal style, adaptation, translation, set design, direction, metropolitan, pesaro, rossini festival, bellini, donizetti, scandinavia, instruments, semiramide, summer festivals. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874001 AB - Winner 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 ER -