Prelude Event for Moïse et Pharaon November 16, 2011

As a prelude to The Collegiate Chorale’s performance of Moïse et Pharaon, Rossini scholar Philip Gossett will speak about the creation and performance practices of Rossini’s opera, as well as offer historical and musical insight on the work and its fascinating iterations. Immediately following the lecture will be a reception. The lecture will begin at 6pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at the Professional Children’s School, located at 132 West 60th Street (between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues).

Tickets are $10 (free to Friends or Maestro's Circle Members) and can be purchased at collegiatechorale.org or by calling (646) 202-9623.

Philip Gossett, Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Chicago, is a music historian with special interests in 19th-century Italian opera, sketch studies, aesthetics, textual criticism, and performance practice. His book, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera, won the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society as the best book on music of the year. One of the world’s foremost experts on Italian opera, Gossett has served as President of the American Musicological Society and of the Society for Textual Scholarship, as Dean of Humanities at Chicago, and as lecturer and consultant at opera houses and festivals in America and Italy.

Official Website: http://collegiatechorale.org