Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Il barbiere di Siviglia. By Gioachino Rossini. Ed. by Patricia B. Brauner.

2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 93; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ml/gcs089

1477-4631

Michael Deasy,

Theater, Performance, and Music History

The project of preparing critical editions of the complete works of Rossini began in 1971, with the launch of the Edizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossini under the aegis of the Fondazione Rossini and Casa Ricordi. With the aim of producing scholarly editions of all thirty-nine operas, not to mention the secular instrumental music, songs, and miscellaneous works (76 volumes in all), it was an enterprise of daunting scope. Nevertheless, by 2005, twenty-two operas and nine ancillary volumes had been issued, and, with the blocks of uniform brown cloth scores expanding inexorably along the world’s library shelves, there seemed every chance that these monumental ambitions would be fully realized. But alas, after nearly four decades of exceptionally fruitful cooperation, political considerations led to fallings out among scholars. As a consequence, since 2007 there have been two competing scholarly editions: the Edizione critica, published by Ricordi in collaboration with the Fondazione Rossini; and the new Works of Gioachino Rossini [WGR] issued by Bärenreiter in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Center for Italian Opera Studies.