How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should say -- or how? French and Italian varieties of opera have inter

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

A collection of 18 essays on musical theatre in the eighteenth century, written between 1967 and 2001

The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. W

Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fanta