Opera

508. Rosselli, John. The Life of Bellini. New York: Cambridge U.P., 1997. x, 184p.
     ISBN 0-521-46227-4. ML410 .B44 R77.
     Although this is a popular-style brief story, it does have backnotes and good
     access through an expansive index. Some program notes on the operas.

Operas in General

509.Vincenzo Bellini und die italienische “opera seria” seiner Zeit.Studien über

Libretto, Arienform und Melodik. Ed. Friedrich Lippmann.Analecta musico-

logica6 (1969). xii, 402p.

A special issue of the journal, consisting of important studies of the libretti,

aria form, structure of the aria, and melodic style. Comparisons with work of

Rossini, Donizetti, and other contemporaries. Discussion of sources, auto-

graphs, early editions, etc. Bibliography of about 150 entries, some annotated.

No index. A worklist is entered separately in this guide (#503).

510.Maguire, Simon. Vincenzo Bellini and the Aesthetics of Early Nineteenth-Century

Italian Opera.Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities.

New York: Garland, 1989. 240p. ISBN 0-8240-2344-7. ML410 .B44 M3.

Originally the author’s Ph.D. dissertation, U. of Oxford, 1985. He investigates

early-19th-century poetry and European aesthetic thought, describing contem-

porary Italian attitudes toward opera and emphasizing those that give Bellini’s

works their particular flavor. He also discusses orchestras and the bel canto

tradition. Indexed.

511. Balthazar, Scott. “Evolving Conventions in Italian Serious Opera: Scene Struc-
     ture in the Works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, 1810–1850.” Ph.D.
     diss., U. of Pennsylvania, 1985. xvii, 595p.

512.I teatri di Vincenzo Bellini. Ed. Maria Rosario Adamo et al. Palermo: Nove-

cento, 1986. 309p. No ISBN. ML410 .B44 T45.

Primarily a picture book (p.161–223), with portraits, stage sets, and posters,

but also a detailed chronology of Bellini, program notes on 10 operas (by vari-

ous authors), footnotes, and musical examples. No index or bibliography.

513. Greenspan, Charlotte. “The Operas of Vincenzo Bellini.” Ph.D. diss., U. of
     California, Berkeley, 1977. 383p.

See also Celletti (#2473).

Individual Works

Beatrice di Tenda

ERO,v.5.

514. Brauner, C. S. “Textual Problems in Bellini’s Normaand Beatrice di Tenda.”
     JAMS29 (1976): 99–118.
     The composer’s many changes and cuts are considered. Brauner does not
     always prefer the latest versions, giving reasons why the earlier manifestations
     were sometimes better.

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