Book of Donmon Teith

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers a

Arranged chronologically with an index of operas and a separate index of composers, librettists and literary sources.

When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her singing cat Alma fills in for her.

An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.

From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and comp