Philip Gossett
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Philip Gossett was an American musicologist and historian, and Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. His lifelong interest in 19th-century Italian op
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Tancredi
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Tancredi is a melodramma eroico in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi, based on Voltaire's play Tancrède. The opera made its first appearance at the Teatro La Fenice i
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…Scimone edition of Maometto II is a critical edition in the true sense of the word, but is more a performing edition by Scimone as conductor. Rossini's Tancredi, Ermione and Semiramide are three critical editions which he has personally edited, while his most recent work is Verdi's La forza del destino which…
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Francesco Bagnara's set for Act 1 scene 1, Venice 1833