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Tables of Contents for Verdi in Performance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Contributors
x
List of Illustrations
xi
The Pains and Pleasures of Liberation
1
10
Alison Latham
Roger Parker
PART I Staging
Staging Verdi's Operas: The Single, 'Correct' Performance
11
38
James Hepokoski
Responses
In Praise of the Pragmatic
23
5
Andrew Porter
On Staging that Matters
28
6
David Rosen
Lights...Action
34
4
Harold Powers
'Trust the tale, not the teller'
38
4
John Rosselli
Misinterpreting Verdian Dramaturgy: History and Grand Opera
42
7
Mike Ashman
PART II Instrumental and Vocal Performance
Ornamenting Verdi's Arias: The Continuity of a Tradition
49
42
David Lawton
Responses
On 'Exactly what is Written'
81
3
Clive Brown
A Rubber Band
84
7
Mark Elder
PART III Ballet
An Avenue Unexplored: The Divertissement and the Opera-Ballet
91
42
Knud Arne Jurgensen
Responses
Ballet in Italy: The Background to Verdi
103
4
Kathleen K. Hansell
Milan and Paris: A Lasting Dialogue
107
3
Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schuller
A Conflict of Interests
110
3
Jose Sasportes
Drawing the Audience in: The Theatre and the Ballroom
113
7
Marian Smith
The Feminization of Ballet
120
5
Maribeth Clark
'Reading' Ballet
125
8
Rebecca Harris-Warrick
PART IV Editions
Critical Editions and Performance
133
14
Philip Gossett
Responses
Critical Performance
147
4
Francesco Degrada
On 'Traditional' Performance
151
6
Gabriele Dotto
The `Textualization' of Opera
157
5
Stefano Castelvecchi
Appendices
A. List of Operas
162
4
B. Chronology of Verdi's Life and Times
166
Alison Latham