Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

by Philip Gossett

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226304876
• ISBN13: 9780226304878
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"