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by Philip Gossett


  Flórez, Juan Diego, xiv, 29, 59, 260, 333, 514, 580n59

  Florimo, Francesco, 83, 143, 233, 235, 354–55, 357, 432

  flutes, wooden, 410

  Fo, Dario, 20, 243, 246–47, 253, 491, 516–18, 519–29

  Fodor-Mainvielle, Joséphine, 300, 332, 563n4

  Fondazione Levi (Venice), 63, 177, 181

  Fondazione Rossini

  autographs in collection of, 9, 76, 79, 146, 157, 583n33

  critical editions produced by, 14, 17, 18, 22, 54, 97, 122–23, 151, 177, 178, 565n32, 594n15

  disposizioni sceniche published by, 452

  goals of, 24

  manuscripts authenticated by, 147, 150

  Ford, Bruce, 411

  fortepiano, 410, 412, 439

  Foscolo, Ugo, 150–51

  Foscosi, Roberto, 466

  Fox, Carol, 254

  France Musicale, La (newspaper), 437

  Franck, Mikko, 518

  Frankfurt Opera House, 481

  Franklin, Benjamin, 592n75

  Franz Joseph, Austrian Emperor, 522–23

  Freni, Mirella, 129

  Frezzolini, Erminia, 222, 341, 342

  Friedrich, Götz, 476–77, 481

  Frigerio, Ezio, 129, 474, 593n2

  Frittoli, Barbara, 476–77

  Frizza, Riccardo, 59

  Frontali, Roberto, 514

  Furie, Kenneth, 174

  Gabussi, Vincenzo, 62

  Gagliardi, Alessandro, 570n91

  Gallico, Claudio, 132, 366, 577n18

  Ganassi, Sonia, 28

  García, Manuel, xiv, xv, 211, 258, 259, 305–6

  García, Manuel P. R., Traité complet de l’art du chant, 300, 305–6

  García Marquez, Gabriel, 517

  Gardiner, John Eliot, 172

  Garofalo, Bruno, 23

  Garrison, Clayton, 467

  Garsington Festival (Oxford), 520

  Gasdia, Cecilia, xiv, 18, 156, 330, 514

  Gatti, Carlo, 50–51

  Gatti, Daniele, 514

  Gatty, Nicholas, 441

  Gavazzeni, Gianandrea, 108–12, 206, 590n48

  Gazzetta musicale di Milano, 466

  Gedda, Nicolai, 123

  Gelmetti, Gianluigi, 152, 303–4

  Gérard, François, 525

  Gergiev, Valéry, xiv, 380, 450, 506

  Gesamtkunstwerk concept, 452

  Ghiaurov, Nicolai, 129, 365

  Ghislanzoni, Antonio, 48, 245

  Giazotto, Remo, 556n24

  Gielen, Michael, 481

  Gielgud, John, 304

  Giger, Andreas, 585n68

  Gigou, Marie-Odile, 456

  Gilbert and Sullivan Savoy operas, 21–22, 228

  Giménez, Raúl, 409

  Ginevra, Stefano, 574n35

  Giornale dipartimentale dell’Adriatico, 463

  giovane Toscanini, Il (film), 431

  Girard (publishing firm), 578–79n38

  Giusti, Giambattista, 61–62

  glass harmonica, 434–35, 579n45

  Glimmerglass Opera (Cooperstown), 566n48

  Gluck, Christoph Willibald

  Iphigénie en Tauride, 538n56

  Orfeo ed Euridice, 229

  Orphée et Euridice, 375

  Glyndebourne Festival, 8, 411, 442

  Gockley, David, 53

  Goldoni, Carlo, Il matrimonio per concorso, 246, 520, 582n10

  Goodman, Nelson, 213

  Gothenburg Opera, 490–92, 501–2, 511–13, 559n72

  Gouzien, Armand, 147–48

  “grammelot,” 603n38

  Grant, “Baron,” 146

  Grassi, Giuseppe, 150–51

  Greenwald, Helen, 590n52

  Grégoire, Madame, 302, 313

  Grimani, Filippo, 24

  Grisi, Giuditta, 211, 227, 545n34, 560n84

  Grisi, Giulia, 232, 297, 342–43, 572n16, 577–78n25

  Grove Music Online, 441

  Grove’s Dictionary, 440–41

  Gruberova, Edita, 12

  Guccini, Gerardo, 482, 595n31

  Gui, Vittorio, 105, 114, 242

  Guidi, Francesco, 393

  Guidi, Giovanni, 115

  Gustaf III, King of Sweden, 492, 494–95

  Gyrowetz, Adalbert, Il finto Stanislao, 37

  Hadlock, Heather, 434

  Halévy, Fromental

  La Juive, 456, 462

  La Reine de Chypre, 392–93

  Hamilton, Charles, 147

  Hancock, Leonard, 495

  Handel, George Frideric, 265

  Alcina, 443

  stagings of, 485

  Handt, Herbert, 22

  Hansell, Kathleen Kuzmick, xvii, 162, 557n32, 587n20, 587n21

  Hanslick, Eduard, On the Musically Beautiful, 375

  harpsichords, 170, 410, 438–39, 441–42, 551n4

  Harris-Warrick, Rebecca, 542n55, 548n28, 595n31

  Harwood, Gregory W., 591n63, 591n64

  Hauswedell & Nolte auction house, 147–48

  Haydn, Franz Joseph, 523

  Hayez, Francesco, 465

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 75

  Henahan, Donal, 177, 185

  Hepokoski, James, 453, 461, 466–67, 570n84, 570n86, 595n28

  Her Majesty’s Theatre (London), 576n1

  Herzog, Werner, 484

  Heugel (publisher), 147–48, 573n27

  Hiller, Ferdinand, 6

  Hoge, Warren, 603n39

  Holland, Bernard, 581n68

  Holmes, William C., 164

  Homer, 134

  Horne, Marilyn, xiv, 6, 86, 92, 119, 121–22, 148–49, 151, 176, 179, 186, 197, 199, 229, 262, 330, 333, 573n31

  horns, 409–10, 419–25, 435–37, 539n67

  crooks for, 419, 424

  hand stopping techniques, 419–21, 425, 437

  Horowitz, Richard, 589n33

  Houghton Library (Harvard), 147

  Houston Grand Opera, 53, 149, 151, 230, 231

  Huck, William, 581n2

  Hugo, Victor

  Hernani, 40, 60, 228

  Lucrèce Borgia, 37

  Le Roi s’amuse, 93–94, 136, 158–59

  Ilari, Francesco, 546n39

  impresarios, 34, 35, 36. See also specific names

  Inbal, Eliahu, 567n51

  Indiana University library, 299

  Ingelbretsen, Kjell, 502

  ingresso, 215

  instrumentation, modern

  dynamic markings and, 426–27, 429

  sonority and balance problems, 188–89, 425–33, 467–68

  instrumentation, original, xiv, 407–42

  alternatives for modern performances, 433–42

  low brass, 426–29

  performances using, 408–13

  prejudices against, 407–9

  secco recitative accompaniment, 438–42

  technical limitations of, 413–25

  interpolations, 24–25, 74, 121–22, 124–27, 180, 196, 242–43, 282, 290–91, 307, 308, 320, 330, 343–44, 352–53. See also opera singers

  Isotta, Paolo, 365, 583n23

  Isouard, Nicolas, Aladin, ou La Lampe merveilleuse, 469

  Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani (Parma), 51, 109, 161, 162, 445, 537n34, 601n18

  Italian society, opera in, 33–36, 68, 79–80, 108–9, 457

  Ivanoff, Nicola, 144, 222

  Jacobi, Derek, 304

  Jacobshagen, Arnold, 456

  Jacovacci, Vincenzo, 493–94

  Janácˇek, Leos, Jenufa, 443

  Jannetti, Francesco, 395–96

  Jensen, Luke, 542n67

  Jesurum, Olga, 462, 466

  Jobin, Émile, 410

  Joël, Nicolas, 593n2

  Johnson, Janet, 155–56, 157, 514, 522, 563n5, 603n44

  Jones, Inigo, 452

  Josephson, Kim, 16

  Journal de Commerce, 210

  Journal de Paris, 226

  Juilliard School of Music, 551n71

  July Revolution of 1830, 515

  Jürg
ensen, Knud Arne, xvii

  Juva, Matilde, 290–91, 297, 315–17, 329, 575n62

  Kaegi, Dieter, 486

  Kahn, Aviel, 519, 521

  Kalmus editions, 13, 26, 578n36

  Kärtnertortheater (Vienna), 75, 325

  Kasarova, Vesselina, 28, 29, 561n90

  Katz, Martin, 330

  Kelly, Paul Austin, 262, 565n34

  Kemble, Adelaide, 265, 298–99, 322, 329, 330, 580n48

  Kent Opera, 453

  Kimbell, David, 274

  King’s Theatre (London), 252

  Kleiber, Carlos, 230

  Komische Oper (East Berlin), 481

  Konchalovskij, Andrej, 474, 506

  Korhonen, Erkki, 519, 521

  Koury, Daniel J., 591n61

  Krauss, Gabrielle, 573n27

  Kroll Theater (Berlin), 481

  Kuhn, Gustav, 7

  Kunde, Gregory, 581n68

  Kundera, Milan, 571n100

  Kupfer, Harry, 481

  Küsel, Matthäus, 594n21

  La Scala. See Teatro alla Scala (Milan) La Scala (periodical), 107

  La Scola, Vincenzo, 477

  Lablache, Luigi, 232, 577–78n25

  Lacy, Michael Rophino, 354

  Lamperi, Alessandro, 562n97, 562n100

  Lamperti, Francesco, 591n68

  Lanari, Alessandro, 392–93, 464, 465

  Larmore, Jennifer, 519–20

  Lawton, David, 113, 124, 366, 502, 566n45, 570n88

  Lazaridis, Stefanos, 475

  Le Concert des Tuileries, 409

  Lechi family, 149–51

  Lemoine, Henry, 585n64

  Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, I pagliacci, 174

  Les Musiciens du Louvre, 409

  Levin, David, 484

  Levin, Robert, 307

  Levine, James, xiv, 26–27, 29, 86, 162, 230, 239

  Lewis, Keith, 411

  Library of Congress (Washington, D.C), 144

  librettos, 36–41. See also translations; specific

  librettists and composers

  antefatto in, 253

  for Bellini operas, 370–71

  choice of, 36–37, 224

  composer’s involvement, 38–39, 40–41

  for Donizetti operas, 369

  for French operas, 455

  Italian verse structures, 43–48, 374–75, 385–97, 403–4

  nineteenth-century conventions, 39–40, 247–48, 260–61

  printed, 42–43, 216, 253

  for Rossini operas, 368–70, 375, 521–31

  staging responsibilities of Italian librettists, 457

  subjects for, 37–39

  substitute, 523–31

  text/music primacy debates, 367–74, 375–77, 393–94

  for Verdi operas, 371–74, 492–94

  Liceo Musicale (Bologna), 78

  Licitra, Salvatore, 124, 330

  Liebling, Estelle, xiv, 328–29

  Lievi, Cesare, 27

  lighting, theatrical, 214–15, 455, 469–70, 481

  Lind, Jenny, 70, 165, 323–24

  Lindegren, Erik, 494–95

  Lindley, Robert, 440–41

  Lipparini, Catterina, 259

  Lippmann, Friedrich, 580n49

  Liverani, Romolo, 468

  livrets de mise en scène, 453, 454–56, 458–59, 469, 594n15

  Ljubimov, Jurij, 482

  Locatelli, Tommaso, 558n52

  loggione, 546n45

  London Symphony Orchestra, 545n31, 549n35

  Loomis, George, 531

  Lopez-Cobos, Jésus, 578n36

  Loppert, Max, 586n9

  Lorenz, Alfred, The Secret of Form in Richard Wagner, 334

  Los Angeles Opera, 447

  Louis-Philippe, King of France, 515

  Louis XVIII, King of France, 515

  Löwe, Sofia, 40

  Lucca, Francesco, 103, 395–96, 398–400, 534n7, 558n49

  Luccardi, Vincenzo, 465

  Ludwig, Christa, 271

  Luhrman, Baz, 479–80, 489

  Luzzati, Emanuele, 23

  Maazel, Lorin, 12, 13, 476–77

  Macdonald, Hugh, 113

  Macnutt, Richard, 147

  Maffei, Clara, 535n6

  Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence), 105, 114, 122, 123–24, 178, 482

  Magnani, Girolamo, 598n68

  Mahler, Gustav, 118

  Mainvielle-Fodor, Joséphine. See Fodor-Mainvielle, Joséphine

  Malagú, Stefania, 545n31

  Malanotte, Adelaide, 150–51

  Malherbe, Charles, 78

  Malibran, Maria

  Bellini and, 211–12, 231–32, 236, 354–55, 359

  ornamentation by, 299

  as Otello, 229, 490

  Manca di Nissa, Bernadette, 156, 331

  Mandanici, Placido, 103, 399, 585n67

  Mangili, Giuseppe, 150

  Manzoni, Alessandro, 161

  Marcello, Benedetto, Il teatro alla moda, 39

  Marchesi, Mathilde, 574n38

  Marchini, Italo, 426

  Marchisio, Barbara, 299

  Marchisio, Carlotta, 299, 574n40

  Marcolini, Maria, 94

  Margherita of Savoy, Queen of Italy, 549n47

  Mari, Luigi, 226

  Mariani, Angelo, 590n49

  Marini, Ignazio, 128, 131–32

  Mario, Giovanni, 227–28, 568n71, 578n25

  Marseillaise, La, 92, 242

  Martinelli, Giovanni, 546n50

  Martone, Mario, 59

  Martorelli, Giulio Cesare, 90–91, 95–96

  Marvin, Roberta Montemorra, xvi, 165, 575n52

  Marzari, Carlo, 564n20

  Mascagni, Pietro, Cavalleria rusticana, 174

  masques, 452

  Massenet, Jules, 459

  Massis, Annick, 409

  Matteuzzi, William, 156

  Mattila, Karita, 518

  Mauceri, John, xvi Maurel, Victor, 533n6

  Mayr, Giovanni Simone, 34

  autograph manuscripts of, 88

  Fedra, 215, 238

  Medea in Corinto, 247, 457, 564n13

  Mazzini, Giuseppe, 510

  Mazzolà, Caterino, 218, 295

  Mazzucato, Alberto, 590n49

  McClary, Susan, 578n36

  McGann, Jerome J., 134

  Medea (play), 489

  Medici, Mario, 543n4

  Mehta, Zubin, 259

  Mei, Eva, 514, 561n90

  Meini, Vincenzo, 570n91

  Melba, Nellie, 178, 352, 574n38, 575n46

  Mellor, Ronald, 549n32

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 118

  Mercadante, Saverio, 34, 100, 330

  Il bravo, 586n12

  paper used by, 53

  secco recitatives of, 438

  Merelli, Bartolomeo, 597n52

  Méric-Lalande, Henriette, 360

  Merighi, Vincenzo, 592n92

  Mérimée, Prosper, 204

  Merlin, Countess de, 561n91

  Merritt, Chris, 6, 176, 194, 305–6

  Messinis, Mario, 469

  Metastasio, Pietro, 36, 248, 295, 378–79

  Metropolitan Opera (New York)

  Bellini productions, 353

  Donizetti productions, 332–33, 443, 592n81

  hiring of singers at, 230

  Mozart productions, 239–40

  orchestra of, 187–89

  Rossini productions, 26–27, 54, 119, 175–78, 185–99, 231, 260, 266, 302, 318, 327, 425

  Verdi productions, 162, 483–84, 495, 587n21

  Zeffirelli productions, 473

  Meucci, Renato, 417, 428, 429, 439, 576n6, 589n33, 590n49, 590n53, 590n54

  Meyerbeer, Giacomo

  Il crociato in Egitto, 96, 226, 438

  Le Prophète, 469, 472

  Rossini’s influence on, 120

  La stella del nord, 599n85

  Michotte, Edmond, 78, 143

  Mila, Massimo, 401

  Milan, Italy

  opera theaters in, 33, 98–100, 213–14

 
political situation in, 79, 382–83, 383–86

  Milan Conservatory library, 143, 290, 360–61

  Milanov, Zinka, 578n36

  Milhaud, Darius, Machines agricoles, 367–68

  Miller, Jonathan, xiv, 10–11, 240, 447, 453, 479, 564n10

  Millo, Aprile, 591n66

  Minati da Badja, Francesco, 88

  Minkowski, Marc, 409–10, 412

  Moldenhauer, Hans, 144

  Molière, 517

  Mombelli, Vincenza Viganò, 566n40

  Monelli, Raffaelle, 296

  Montarsolo, Paolo, 545n31

  Monteleone, Andrea, 82

  Morlacchi, Francesco, 380

  Mosca, Giuseppe, Emira, Regina d’Egitto, 215

  Mosca, Luigi, L’Italiana in Algeri, 37, 86, 91

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  “authentic” performance of works by, 172

  La clemenza di Tito, 295

  critical edition of works, 113

  Don Giovanni, 440–41, 554n33

  Le nozze di Figaro, 239–40, 255, 328, 564n10

  secco recitative accompaniment in operas of, 440–42

  Die Zauberflöte, 328

  Murat, Joachim, 247

  music publishing business, 13–14, 79–81, 98–106, 299–300. See also specific names and firms Muti, Riccardo, xiv, 11–13, 105, 122–30, 132, 162, 174, 229, 242–43, 267, 303, 308, 330, 364–65, 445

  Muzio, Emanuele, 70, 101, 323, 431–32, 597n61

  Nabokov, Vladimir, Pale Fire, 135

  Naples, Italy

  accompanied recitatives in, 247–48, 250–51

  farsa performances in, 89–90

  Lenten operas in, 35

  opera theaters in, 33, 34, 36, 214

  political situation in, 79, 158, 224–25, 235, 247, 493–94

  Naples Conservatory library, 86–92, 94–97, 143

  Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 454

  Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 224, 493, 499, 513

  Narici, Ilaria, 164, 496, 502, 511, 555n12, 559n70, 559n72

  Negrin, Francisco, 566n48

  Neuenfels, Hans, 481, 482–83

  New Grove Dictionary, The, 441

  New York City Opera, 10, 157, 206, 219, 515–16, 521

  New York Public Library, 115, 122, 145, 157

  New York Review of Books, 173

  New York Times, 173, 177, 180, 185

  Nicolini, Giuseppe, 238–39, 572n16

  Niedermeyer, Abraham-Louis, 600n2

  Nikrosius, Eimuntas, 447–50

  Nilsson, Birgit, 491–92

  Norberg-Schulz, Elizabeth, 514

  Norrington, Roger, xiv, 172, 416–17, 419

  Noseda, Gustavo Adolfo, 560n74

  Nourrit, Adolphe, 91

  Novello, Clara, 321

  Novello, Ewer and Co., 355–56

  novenario, 389–90, 392, 393

  Nozzari, Andrea, 36

  Nucci, Leo, 156, 308, 365

  “number operas,” 247, 253–54, 306–20

  Nydahl, Rudolf (collection of), 22, 158, 271, 492

  oboes, 416

  octosyllabes, 389–92

  Offenbach, Jacques, The Tales of Hoffman, 294, 328

  opera buffa, 33, 394–96, 397–401, 438

  opéra-comique, 394, 397

 

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