Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Italian opera's fashions and legacies Hilary Poriss; 2. Viardot sings Handel (with thanks to George Sand, Chopin, Meyerbeer, Gounod, and Julius Rietz) Ellen T. Harris; 3. Partners in rhyme: Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaez, and foreign opera in Paris during the July Monarchy Mark Everist; 4. Verdian opera in the Victorian parlor Roberta Montemorra Marvin; 5. I falsi Puritani: the opera's early history in Italy Fabrizio Della Seta; 6. To the ear of the amateur: performing Ottocento opera piecemeal Hilary Poriss; 7. Peeping at pachyderms: convergences of sex and music in France around 1800 Jeffrey Kallberg; 8. Aida and nine readings of 'empire' Ralph P. Locke; 9. Comic sights: stage directions in Luigi Ricci's autograph scores Francesco Izzo; 10. Staging and form in Giuseppe Verdi's Otello Andreas Giger; 11. Stanislavski's La boheme (1927) David B. Rosen; 12. What is tradition? Will Crutchfield; 13. Epilogue: the art of 'translation' John Mauceri.