Philip Gossett

Philip Gossett is the Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His reconstruction of Gustavo III, the original version of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, had its première at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden this past September. (March 2003)

Opera from the Other Side

Opera from the Other Side

An illustrated history of opera production offers an extraordinary view of the work that makes operatic spectacle function.

March 12, 2014

The Case for Puccini

The Case for Puccini

Puccini: A Biography

by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Puccini: His Life and Works

by Julian Budden

Puccini: His International Art

by Michele Girardi, translated from the Italian by Laura Basini

March 27, 2003 issue

The Music of Carl Dahlhaus: An Exchange

April 26, 1990 issue

Up from Beethoven

Nineteenth-Century Music

by Carl Dahlhaus, translated by J. Bradford Robinson

October 26, 1989 issue

Exchange

J. Bradford Robinson

The Music of Carl Dahlhaus: An Exchange

April 26, 1990 issue

Operamania

A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera

by Peter Conrad

October 13, 1988 issue

Let Handel Be Handel

Handel's Operas: 1704–1726

by Winton Dean and John Merrill Knapp

March 17, 1988 issue

Making a Comeback

Donizetti and His Operas

by William Ashbrook

March 31, 1983 issue

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