Opera books

This book presents Edward W. Said’s insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas—originally delivered as...  Read More >>

Studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the...  Read More >>

Studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the...  Read More >>

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This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first...  Read More >>

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

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Urs App, storico di fama mondiale della scoperta occidentale del buddismo, racconta la storia dell'incontro creativo...  Read More >>

What is opera cinema -- The history of opera cinema -- What makes it opera cinema -- The Opera Virgins Project --...  Read More >>

The many and varied domestic musical arrangements of opera that circulated in Vienna provide a unique window on...  Read More >>

Vocal shame is the new prominent area of academic interest that should be on every singer's radar.Essential, informative,...  Read More >>

Gracchus is a grand opera that tells of an unforgettable human drama set to soaring music. The whole unfolds according...  Read More >>

Highlights the dynamism of twenty-first-century opera performance practice with regard to sexual violence, establishes...  Read More >>

Highlights the dynamism of twenty-first-century opera performance practice with regard to sexual violence, establishes...  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 >>

This is the first comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving complete 'opera',...  Read More >>

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Seeing Opera Anew offers a “stereo” perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human...  Read More >>

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance...  Read More >>

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883) spiegelte in seiner letzten Oper Parsifal. Ein Buhnenweihfestspiel sein Jahrhundert mit...  Read More >>

This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton’s Comus that were staged in the 1740s...  Read More >>

An exhaustive biography of the world's greatest soprano - Maria Callas - on the centenary of her birth.  Read More >>

A long-needed and up-to-date overview of the syntax and principles that make Verdi's operas so effective and so...  Read More >>