Book of Donmon Teith

In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and d

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.

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