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The following includes details on books on Donizetti, his work and his era. Books and scores for Mayr are held on the Mayr page and information on scores on the scores page. Please contact info@donizettisociety.com with any suggestions for additional publications.
Donizetti Society Publications Standard reference books on Donizetti Books describing aspects of Italian opera of this era
Donizetti Society Publications
The Donizetti Society publishes a regular Newsletter and an occasional Journal. It has also published books, such as Donizetti's Operas in Naples 1822-1848, by John Black (1982) and reprinted 19th century vocal scores of works such as Roberto Devereux, Caterina Cornaro and Les Martyrs as well as printing a more recent vocal score prepared by Graeme Young of L'esule di Roma.
Standard reference books on DonizettiWilliam Ashbrook: Donizetti and his Operas, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press 1982. Ashbrook also wrote an earlier life entitled Donizetti in 1965.
Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 7, London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2001, pp.761-796. The 1980 edition article, by William Ashbrook and Julian Budden, was also reprinted in The New Grove Masters of Italian Opera, London: Papermac, 1984, pp. 93-154.
Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Volume 1, London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1997, pp.1201-1221.
Egidio Saracino (ed), Tutti I libretti di Donizetti, Garzanti Editore, 1993.
Herbert Weinstock, Donizetti, London: Metheun & Co., Ltd., 1964. (UK publication date).
Guido Zavadini Donizetti: Vita - Musiche- Epistolario, Bergamo, 1948
TopOther books on Donizetti
James P. Cassaro, Gaetano Donizetti - A Guide to Research, New York: Garland Publishing. 2000 Leopold M Kantner, ed., Donizetti in Wien, papers from a symposium in various languages (ISBN 3-7069-0006-8 / ISSN 156,00-8921). Published by Primo Ottocento, available from Edition Praesens. Philip Gossett, Anna Bolena and the Artistic Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985 Egidio Saracino Ed. Tutti i libretti di Donizetti, Milan: Garzanti, 1993 Philippe Thanh, Donizetti, Actes Sud/Classica, Paris, 2005, 192 p. ISBN: 2-7427-5481-4 This is the first complete modern study in French on Donizetti. See http://www.actes-sud.fr/ficheisbn.php?isbn=9782742754816 . Alex Weatherson in his review of the book in Newsletter 95 commented that " the text is balanced and the judgement mature: [Thanh] is at his best when he touches upon France and Donizetti's Parisian career as you would expect, when the insights gather and the ambience is very skillfully evoked". Dr. Emre Araci, Giuseppe Donizetti – the Italian maestro of the Ottoman court, ( Donizetti Paşa, Osmanlı Sarayının İtalyan Maestrosu), Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, Istanbul, November, 2006, 260 pages, ISBN: 975-08-1153-4.
TopBooks describing aspects of Italian and French opera of this eraTom Kaufman's website, http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/8917/ , includes lists and reviews of books giving the chronology and details of performances at opera houses in many countries.
Michael Jahn, Die Wiener Hopofer von 1826 bis 1848, ISBN: 978 3 85450 148 0, Verlag Der Apfel, Austria, http://www.verlagderapfel.at includes Donizetti's career in Vienna.
Michael Jahn, Di tanti palpiti...Italiener in Wien, ISBN: 978-3-85450-196-1, Verlag Der Apfel, Austria, http://www.verlagderapfel.at. A more wide ranging book on Italians at the Vienna Hofoper.
John Black, The Italian Romantic Libretto, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984
David Charlton, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. A series of essays exploring many different aspects of grand opera many of whose personalities and works overlap the end of the bel canto era.
Sieghart Döhring and Arnold Jacobshagen, Meyerbeer und das europäische Musiktheater, published by Laaber-Verlag
Mark Everist, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
David Kimbell, Italian Opera, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. A broad sweep of Italian opera but with a substantial section on Romantic opera of this era.
John Rosselli, Music and Musicians in Nineteenth Century Italy, London: B.T.Batsford, 1991.
John Rosselli, Singers in Italian Opera, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
William Weaver, The Golden Century of Italian Opera, London:Thames and Hudson, 1980.
Sebastian Werr, Errico Petrella (ISBN 3-7069-0040-8 / ISSN 156,00-8921). Available from Edition Praesens.
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