This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven

An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline f

Classical Archaeologists, art historians and artists consider the Role of the Artist' in the rediscovery of the past.