Book of Donmon Teith

Closely examining five French operas, this book reveals how and why grand opera sought to bring the past alive.

Professor Fulcher argues that French grand opera was a subtly used tool of the state.

Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, na

“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed an