A Guide to Italian Opera - Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo and a Selection of Their Operas, Including the Barber of Seville, Norma, Lucia Di Lammermoor, Cavalleria Rusticana, and Pagliacci (Paperback)

This volume provides an introduction to Italian opera and includes a look at influential styles, genres and techniques including verismo, commedia dell'arte, opera buffa and bel canto. The book then details great Italian opera composers including Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Pietro Mascagni and Ruggero Leoncavallo as well as a selection of their operas, including the Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, William Tell, La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, Lucia Di Lammermoor, Cavalleria Rusticana, and Pagliacci. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.