Opera books

Contributors to this volume push the boundaries of contemporary opera scholarship by examining works that disrupt...  Read More >>

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades,...  Read More >>

This volume reprints articles that cover an array of significant twentieth-century operas and critical questions...  Read More >>

Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers...  Read More >>

The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations...  Read More >>

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of...  Read More >>

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work....  Read More >>

Contributors to this volume push the boundaries of contemporary opera scholarship by examining works that disrupt...  Read More >>

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914)....  Read More >>

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager’s Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers...  Read More >>

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935–2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini’s operas...  Read More >>

""Mozart et Don Juan"" de P. Scudo est une oeuvre captivante qui plonge dans les coulisses de la création de l'un...  Read More >>

From “the most imaginative director in the US” (The New York Times) comes this generational work with a vision for...  Read More >>

Connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society.  Read More >>

This book is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives...  Read More >>

Opera stars, then & now.  Read More >>

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian Romantic opera composer, best known for Rigoletto,...  Read More >>

La Traviata is one of Verdi's most famous operas, centering on the doomed love between the courtesan Violetta Valéry...  Read More >>

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From unscripted giggling on stage, to having her costume eaten by a performing horse and missing an entrance thanks...  Read More >>

How can the early music movement move into the future? Could this be a transformative moment for change and growth?...  Read More >>

This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera...  Read More >>

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera. Beginning in the...  Read More >>

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera. Beginning in the...  Read More >>