Book of Donmon Teith

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

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

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

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

A major re-orientation in understanding opera, exploring musical comedies with spoken dialogue previously excluded from historical accounts.