In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends--Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland--explo

Nowhere in Europe the Italian opera libretto has had such a direct and decisive influence on original national drama production as it did in Dubrovnik during th

An influential 1863 study of the radical innovations in operatic writing pioneered by Gluck (1714-87) in Vienna and Paris.