Opera books

"French Musical Life is a study of French musical centralization and its discontents during the period leading up...  Read More >>

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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, opposition to the tsarist autocracy grew in Russia. To counter this, Tsar...  Read More >>

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Opera is a vital piece of the Western old-style music custom. Initially comprehended as a sung piece, rather than...  Read More >>

The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France’s first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an...  Read More >>

Rejected, Canceled, Giving Up, and Personal Struggles - every day, musicians from around the world begin their journey...  Read More >>

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, “La Divina Assoluta,” remains unsurpassed. Much...  Read More >>

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings....  Read More >>

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary dialogue in opera studies...  Read More >>

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This book will be...  Read More >>

Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance,...  Read More >>

Known as ""pasticcios,"" eighteenth-century operas that employed the substitution or compilation of arias fitting...  Read More >>

Un giorno di regno, which premiered at Milan's Teatro alla Scala in September 1840, is Verdi's second opera and...  Read More >>

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This book considers and discuss aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century...  Read More >>

Verdi hat mit seiner Oper «Nabucco» 1842 den Durchbruch zum Welterfolg geschaffen. Ist sie als musikalische und...  Read More >>

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don...  Read More >>

Feasting and Fasting in Opera shows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both...  Read More >>

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"""Muzio was a case apart: you cannot classify her, for in the end you have been so emotionally destroyed by her...  Read More >>

This book surveys the myriad and creative changes that have affected The Barber of Seville since its premiere, exploring...  Read More >>

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni's story the only one-or even the most interesting one-in...  Read More >>

Documenting a new Threepenny Opera held at the site of its 1928 debut This book is published for a new production...  Read More >>