Book of Donmon Teith

The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of expert scholars has worked together to investigate the Italian operatic tradition in its entirety, r

To what extent do operas express the political and cultural ideas of their age? How do they reflect the composer's view of the changing relations among art, pol

An interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century operatic texts. This is an

Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.

Opera is the grandest and most potent cultural expression of the nationalist movement which led to the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. Durin