Book of Donmon Teith

A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.

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

A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.

In Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a wide-ranging, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. A unique anthology of primary s

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing