Richard Wagner wanted to create miracles with his operas, in much the same way as medieval dramatists wanted to produce ......more

This book explores the emergence of female rescuers in the German-language operas of Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner....more

Opening Doors: Orchestras, Opera Companies and Community Engagement investigates the ways in which the classical music i......more

The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices h......more

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini’s operas on ......more

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How can the early music movement move into the future? Could this be a transformative moment for change and growth? In t......more

How can the early music movement move into the future? Could this be a transformative moment for change and growth? In t......more

In twelve essays, Contemporary Opera in Flux discusses a series of shifts that, taken together, have radically redefined......more

You’ve heard the term "prima donna" thrown around but to be perfectly honest you don’t have a deep understandding of wha......more

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

The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles u......more

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "l......more

The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigati......more

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our ......more