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Journal No. 1, 1974

Journal No. 2, 1975

Journal No.3, 1977 - Donizetti's Maria Stuarda

Journal No.4, 1980 - Donizetti in Revival

Journal No.5, 1984

Journal No.6, 1988 - Donizetti and his contemporaries

Journal No.1, 1974

Editor: John Watts

Content

John Watts Editorial - p.5

John S. Allitt Introduction - p.9

John S. Allitt Maria Stuarda - p.17

John Watts Maria Stuarda in performance - p. 41

Jan de Schaap Il borgomastro di Saardam - p.51

John S. Allitt L'amor coniugale - p. 59

Newell Jenkins Medea in Corinto - p.81

Gaicomo Antonini Donizetti & Byron - p. 91

Guglielmo Barblan Donizetti in Naples - p. 105

Charles P. McCorquedale Operatic Stage Design (1800-1840) - p. 121

Derek Turner Donizetti and the Victorian Musical Machine - p. 129

John S. Allitt Donizetti's letter to Rovere - p. 137

John S. Allitt Mayr's notebooks - p.141

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Journal No.2, 1975

Editor: John Watts

Content

John Watts Editorial - p.9

Guglielmo Barblan Maria di Rohan - p.15 (translated by Derek Turner)

John Watts Maria di Rohan in performance - p. 34

John S. Allitt Les Martyrs revived - p.37

Les Martyrs, review in La France Musicale, 1840 - p.53 (translated by John Standen)

Les Martyrs, review in Review et Gazette Musicale de Paris, 1840 - p.61
(translated by John Standen).

I Martiri, review in the Illustrated London News, 1852 - p.69

I Martiri, review in The Times, 1852 - p.72

Les Martyrs, the French libretto - p.75

Michael F. Messenger Donizetti 1840, 3 'French' operas and their Italian counterparts - p.99

Ralph Leavis La Favorite and La Favorita, One opera, two librettos - p.117

Jean-Louis Tamcavo Paul-Bernard Barroilhet (translated by John Standen) - p.131

Jeremy Commons Unknown Donizetti Items in the Neapolitan Journal 'Il Sibilo' - p.145

Joseph Guaricci Lucrezia Borgia - p.161.

John S. Allitt Lucrezia Borgia - p.179.

John S. Allitt Don Pasquale - p.189.

Jeremy Commons The authorship of I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti - p.199

John S. Allitt Lucia di Lammermoor - p.209

Richard Northcott (1916) Donizetti, A sketch of his life and a record of his operas - p.229

Edward Dent (1955) Donizetti, an Italian romantic - p.249

Donizetti, an unpublished letter from 1838 - p.271

John S. Allitt (translator) Le Lezione Caritatevoli - p.275

John S. Allitt Mayr's La Passione - p.294

John S. Allitt Mayr's Samuele - p.314

Mayr's thoughts, selected and translated by John S. Allitt - p.316

John S. Allitt Book reviews

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Journal No.3, 1977

Maria Stuarda

Editor: John Watts

Content

It should be noted that some of the material in this Journal has been superseded by later scholarship, see
Queen of Dissent: Mary Stuart and the opera in her honour by Carlo Coccia by Alexander Weatherson

John Watts Preface - p.11

Jeremy Commons Introduction - p.13

Antonio Fraser Mary Queen of Scots in fact and fiction - p.17

William White Schiller's Maria Stuart - p.23

Lorenzo Arruga The unmistakeable Donizettian voice - p.67

William Ashbrook Maria Stuarda, the opera and its music - p.73

Jeremy Commons Giuseppe Bardari - p.85

William Ashbrook Maria Stuarda, the libretto, its source, the historical background and variants - p.97

Maria Stuarda - synopsis - p.106

Maria Stuarda - Italian/English libretto - p.108

Jeremy Commons Maria Stuarda and the Neapolitan censorship - p.151

Buondelmonte at the Teatro alla Scala - p.168

Patric Schmid Buondelmonte and Maria Stuarda - p.171

Buondelmonte - Italian libretto - p.177

Maria Stuarda at the Teatro alla Scala - p.210

Jeremy Commons 19th century performances of Maria Stuarda - p.217

Patric Schmid, Don White

Herbert Weinstock A note on Maria Stuarda - p.243

John Watts Maria Stuarda in performance 1958-77 - p.244

Giacomo Antonini & Maria Stuarda on record - p.259
John Carter

John Watts Other operas about Mary Stuart - p.265

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Journal No.4, 1980

Editor: Alexander Weatherson

Content

Alexander Weatherson Editorial - p.11

Alexander Weatherson Donizetti in Revival - p.13

John Black Cammarano's notes for the staging of Lucia di Lammermoor - p.29

Bruno Cagli Il dolce suono di sua voce - p.46

Thomas G. Kaufman Italian performances in Vienna 1835-1859 - p.53

Brian Thornton History, legend and Romani's Rosmonda d'Inghilterra - p.73

John Black Cammarano's self borrowings - the libretto of Poliuto - p.89

Thomas G. Kaufman L'esule di Roma - a performance history - p.104

Bruno Cagli Donde tal pianto - p.110

Bruce Brewer Il cigno di Romani - Giovan Battista Rubini, a performance study,

followed by a list of his performances & repertory - p.117

Henry F. Chorley Two 19^th century accounts of G.B. Rubini - p.167

John E. Cox " " " " - p.172

Thomas G. Kaufman Giulia Grisi - a revaluation, followed by a chronology of

Grisi's operatic performances and repertory - p.181

Giorgio Gualerzi Gianandrea Gavazzeni ovvero il mancato Donizettismo

di un Donizettiano - p.227

Fulvio Stefano Lo Presti La fortuna di Donizetti oggi in Inghilterra - p.231

Andrew Everett Illness, caught at Paris - p.241

Louis Wernick Postscript on Maria Stuarda - p.247

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Journal No.5, 1984

Editor: Alexander Weatherson

Content

Alexander Weatherson Editorial - p.1

Alexander Weatherson Donizetti and Romantic sensibility in Milan at the time of Maria Padilla - p.8

Roger Parker Maria Padilla; some historical and analytical remarks - p.20

Thomas G. Kaufman Lucrezia Borgia - various versions and performance history - p.37

John Black The revival of Gemma di Vergy at the S.Carlo of Naples in June 1838 - p.82

Gene J. Cho Donizetti's Laudate Pueri - p.89

John Black Élisabeth d'Angleterre, il conte d'Essex and Roberto Devereux - p.135

John Black Code of instructions for the censorship of theatrical works, Naples 1849 - p.147

Alexander Weatherson Lament for a dead nightingale: the cantata 'in morte di M.F. Malibran de Bériot
- p.155

Thomas G. Kaufman Giorgio Ronconi - p.169

Leyla Gencer Notes on the interpretation of Donizetti's queens - p.208

Fulvio Lo Presti Maria Stuarda regna felicemente sulla renaissance Donizettiana - p.217

Jeremy Commons & Il campanello di notte: further evidence, further questions - p.231

John Black

Fulvio Lo Presti Le Duc d'Albe: The livret of Scribe and Duveyrier - p.243

Thomas G. Kaufman A bibliography of opera house annals - p.317

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Journal No.6, 1988

Donizetti and his contemporaries

Editor: Alexander Weatherson

Content

Alexander Weatherson Donizetti and his contemporaries - editorial - p.1

Alexander Weatherson Revival in depth - p.7

John Black Donizetti and his contemporaries in Naples 1822-1848

- a study in relative popularity - p.11

Vittorio Della Croce La cantante di Mayr - p.29

Karen M. Bryan Mercadante's experiment in form: the cabalettas of Elena da Feltre - p.37

Jeremy Commons Giovanni Pacini and 'Maria Tudor' - p. 57

John Black The eruption of Vesuvius in Pacini's L'ultimo giorno di Pompei - p.95

Alexander Weatherson English legend, French play, two Italian composers - p. 107

Thomas G. Kaufman Giuseppe and Fanny Persiani - p. 123

Piero Mioli "Il segreto per esser felici" Alcune osservazioni sulla voce

di contralto nell'opera di Donizetti e dei contemporanei - p. 153

Andrew Everett "Bewitched in a magic garden", Giacomo Meyerbeer in Italy - p. 163

Thomas G. Kaufman Corrections and additions to a Bibliography of

Opera House Annals published in Journal 5 - p. 193

Acknowledgements and Appendix - list of vocal scores from Garland Publishing of New York.