This book features interviews with 22 famous opera stars whose careers began in the late 1940s and extended into the 197......more

The life of an opera singer is a total mystery to 99% of members of the audience at any performance. This fascinating bo......more

For many instructors today, teaching canonical dramatic repertoire can be a fraught proposition: from Don Giovanni to So......more

The first publication of Le trouvère in full score, and the first of Verdi’s French operas to appear in The Works of Giu......more

The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment, music......more

The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment, music......more

Donizetti’s opera, based on Walter Scott’s novel, is a staple of the bel canto operatic repertoire and famed above all f......more

Composer Richard Wagner wanted to create miracles with his operas, like medieval dramatists who wanted to produce miracl......more

The new L’elisir d’amore with a fresh setting of music from 21st century American composer William Copper. The same belo......more

This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, ......more

This book approaches opera fantasias - instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtu......more

Shostakovich’s lurid opera of sex, violence, and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, is famous for being banned by personal......more