BARBARA GENTILI is Surrey Future Senior Fellow at the University of Surrey. She holds a PhD in Musicology from the Royal College of Music. She is also an accomplished soprano and opera singer.

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Introduction 1 Changing Italian Opera: Verismo, Singers and the Foreigners
Framing Verismo The Features of Verismo Singing: New Demands on Modern
Singers The French, Changes in Dramaturgy and Librettos Winds of Change
from the North The Anti-Modern Crusade of Vocal Pedagogues 2 Vocal
Registers: Defining Key Terms The Concept of Vocal Register Register
Division Theories Survey of Key Historical Vocal Treatises Aesthetics of
Vocal Registration in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century 3 The
Components of Modern Singing A Few Essentials of Modern Singing Bel Canto
Encounters Verismo: Nellie Melba versus Emma Carelli More on the Passaggio:
Mattia Battistini versus Titta Ruffo and the Veristizzazione of Bel Canto
The Granitic Diction of the Modern Singer 4 The Pathway to Modern Singing:
The Tenor at the Time of Caruso In Search of Modernity Caruso's
'Naturalness' and 'Spontaneity': Between Production and Reception The Top C
'from the Chest': Between the Myth and the Recorded Evidence Some
Preliminary Conclusions on the Natural Singing of Caruso 5 Italian Sopranos
and the Disruption of Tradition The Verismo Sopranos Eugenia Burzio and
Emma Carelli The Chest Voice on Record The Medium Register: Vocal
Modulations and the Spoken Theatre The Upper Register Conclusions
Bibliography Discography Index

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