The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini

Philip Gossett, Friedrich Lippmann, Andrew Porter, Mosco Carner

W.W. Norton, 1983 - Composers - 353 pages

Provides a complete survey of Italian opera from the early buffo operas of Rossini to Verdi's great masterpieces and the verismo operas of Puccini texts, expanded and updated from The New Grove dictionary ... with comprehensive worklist, index and fully revised bibliography, illuminate clearly the subject's life and works.

About the author

Philip Gossett was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 27, 1941. He received a bachelor's degree from Amherst College and a doctorate from Princeton University. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1968, where he remained for the rest of his academic career. He was a musicologist who helped bring long-lost operas back to the stage. His book, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera, was published in 2006. He died on June 13, 2017 at the age of 75.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini; Composer biography series; New Grove Composer Biography Series
• Authors: Philip Gossett, Friedrich Lippmann, Andrew Porter, Mosco Carner
• Contributors: Friedrich Lippmann, Mosco Carner
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: W.W. Norton, 1983
• ISBN: 0393300897, 9780393300895
• Length: 353 pages