Opera

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  1. Vetro, Gaspare Nello. António Carlos Gomes: “Il guarany.”Parma: Tecno-
    grafica, 1996. 155p. ML410 .G63 A34.
    Reception history, especially in Italy, of Gomes’s best-known opera. Includes a
    chronology of performances with casts. Without notes, bibliography, or index.

  2. Ruberti, Salvatore. “O guaraní” e “Colombo” de Carlos Gomes.Rio de
    Janeiro: Laudes, 1972. 212p. ML410 .G63 R8.
    Extended program notes on the opera and the 1982 Columbus festival can-
    tata, Colombo. No musical examples, notes, bibliography, or index.


François-Joseph Gossec (1734–1829)


Le pecheursis in FO,v.59.



  1. Dufrane, Louis. Gossec: Sa vie, ses oeuvres.Paris: Fischbacher, 1927. 267p.
    ML410 .G67 D86.
    A footnoted life and works. Worklist, program notes on the operas, name
    index.


Charles François Gounod (1818–1893)


Faustis in ASO2 (1976), and Roméo et Julietteis in ASO41 (1982).


There is a curious lack of scholarly writing on Gounod, whose Faust was once among
the most produced operas worldwide. The standard biography dates from 1911:



  1. Prod’homme, Jacques-Gabriel, and A. Dandelot. Gounod: Sa vie et ses oeu-
    vres.Paris: Delagrave, 1911. 2v. Reprint, in 1v., Geneva: Minkoff, 1973. ISBN
    2-8266-0051-6. ML410 .G7 P92.
    A well-documented life and works, with descriptions of the operas. Worklist,
    chronology, iconography, bibliography of about 120 titles, no index.

  2. Harding, James. Gounod. New York: Stein & Day, 1973. 251p. ISBN 0-8128-
    1541-6. ML410 .G7 H4.
    A popular biography, without notes, together with program notes on the
    operas. Worklist of titles only, giving no information; name index.

  3. Huebner, Steven. The Operas of Charles Gounod. New York: Oxford U.P.,

  4. 314p. ISBN 0-19-315329-7. ML410 .G7 H8.
    A good account of Gounod’s works, against a biographical backdrop. Detailed
    genesis for the operas; technical studies of melody, harmony, and form; and
    synopses. Musical examples and photographs. Descriptions of the four the-
    aters and companies in mid–19th-century Paris. Bibliography, weak index.

  5. Rustman, Mark M. “Lyric Opera: A Study of the Contributions of Charles
    Gounod.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Kansas, 1986. vi, 456p.


See also Cooper (#66).


Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759)


See #947.


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