'Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,' writes Arthur Groos...

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Per...

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What ...

The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was acc...

'Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,' writes Arthur Groos...

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What ...

This wide-ranging history explores German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner.

This book explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century L...

An examination of the world of Vienna and the opera buffa in the eighteenth-century.

This guide presents a unique collection of critical, analytical, and documentary essays on Puccin...

In this study, Ian Woodfield explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late e...

German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner is the subject of this wide-ranging history,...

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Per...

Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' b...