Gioachino Rossini

Assorted visual media: engraving of the composer in 1857; photograph in 1862; lithograph in 1866; 1830 Parisian lithograph depicting the storm scene from Il barbiere di siviglia (the header for this page).

Giuditta Pasta

• Carlo Ritorni's Annali del teatro della città di Reggio: Anno 1825-1833, published in 1829. He discusses Pasta beginning on p. 182.

Further Reading

Links to Worldcat entries except where specified.

• Ashbrook, William. Donizetti and His Operas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 

• Becker, Heinz and Gudrun Becker. Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters, Mark Violette, trans. London: Helm, 1989. 

• Charlton, David, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 

• Celletti, Rodolfo. A History of Bel Canto, Frederick Fuller, trans. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 

• Fulcher, Jane. The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 

• Gerhard, Anselm. The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in Paris in the Nineteenth Century, Mary Whittall, trans. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998.  

• Glinka, Mikhail. Memoirs, Richard B. Mudge, trans. Norman, OK: Universityof Oklahoma Press, 1963.

• Gossett, Philip. Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 

• Lacombe, Hervé. The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century. Edward Schneider, trans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 

• Poriss, Hilary. Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 

• Rosselli, John. The Life of Bellini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

• Rosselli, John. The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: The Role of the Impresario. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 

• Stendhal. Life of Rossini, translated and annotated by Richard N. Coe. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972 

• Taruskin, Richard. Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

• Tusa, Michael. Euryanthe and Carl Maria von Weber’s Dramaturgy of German Opera. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 

• Warrack, John. Carl Maria von Weber, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 

• Warrack, John. German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.