Introduction : Rossini's operatic operas / Emanuele Senici
Rossini's life / Richard Osborne
Rossini and France / Benjamin Walton
The Rossini renaissance / Charles S. Brauner
Librettos and librettists / Paolo Fabbri
Compositional methods / Philip Gossett
The dramaturgy of the operas / Marco Beghelli
Melody and ornamentation / Damien Colas
Off the stage / Richard Osborne
Tancredi and semiramide / Heather Hadlock
Il barbiere di siviglia / Janet Johnson
Guillaume Tell / Cormac Newark
Singing Rossini / Leonella Grasso Caprioli
Staging Rossini / Mercedes Viale Ferrero
Editing Rossini / Patricia B. Brauner.
