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Original price $34.95Current price $10.98Chronicle of Opera: Revised Edition
"Practical for reference and delightful for browsing....Excellent introduction for the opera novice as well as the more experienced listener." —Boo...
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$20.00The Complete Operas Of Verdi (Da Capo Paperback)
The Complete Operas of Verdi is the first full-length study of all of Verdi's operas. This work of the brilliant British music critic Charles Osbor...
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$44.00Opera as Drama, 50th Anniversary Edition
Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of ope...
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$18.00Mad Scene and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America
Heidi Waleson From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt—an...
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$85.00Wagner's Ring in 1848
Makes available in reliable English translation Wagner's original Siegfried libretto and his early essay on the Nibelung myth. In 1848 Richard Wag...
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$99.00Handel's Operas, 1726-1741
by Winton Dean Detailed overview of Handel's final 22 operas - including major masterpieces such as Orlando, Ariodante and Alcina and the brilliant...
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$24.95A History of Opera
“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”―Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transf...
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$39.95Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style
Andrew Davis Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic composers. In Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccin...
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$44.95Opera Coaching Professional Techniques for the Repetiteur 2nd Edition
Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur, Second Edition, is an update to the first practical guide for opera coaches when work...
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$27.95Ach ich fühl's - German for Opera Singers in Three Acts: Studying, Speaking, Singing
"Ach ich fühl's - German for opera Singers in Three Acts: Studying, Speaking, Singing" is the first German language book that makes its readers lau...
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$75.00French Opera: A Short History
French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth, and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles...
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$29.95Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion
Translating the text of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is a monumental task that few have successfully undertaken. Here, however, Stewart Sp...
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$21.95The Verdi Baritone Studies in the Development of Dramatic Character
One of the most significant developments in 19th-century Italian opera was the genesis of the Verdi baritone. The authors argue that the composer's...
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$20.00Opera for All Seasons 60 Years of Indiana University Opera Theater
From operas presented in reconfigured army barracks to those mounted on a stage rivaling that of New York's Metropolitan Opera House, Indiana Unive...
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Original price $50.00Current price $19.98Magic Flute
This is an in depth overview of the creation & development of the opera Magic Flute by artist Jun Kaneko. In 2009 the San Francisco Opera commi...
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$17.95Puccini's La Bohème
Alexandra Wilson Oxford Keynotes Offers new interpretations of a much-loved opera and reveals how it became so successful Explores the relationshi...
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$150.00The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon
Edited by Cormac Newark and William Weber Oxford Handbooks Includes contributions from industry professionals about opera's commercial and artisti...
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$19.95The New Book of Opera Anecdotes
Ethan Mordden Includes new, previously unpublished interviews Enriches and expands upon the story begun in the original Opera Anecdotes Features t...
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$29.99Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
ditors: Mark Berry, Nicholas Vazsonyi, The Companion is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Wagner's...
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$43.95Metaphysical Song: An Essay on Opera
In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four h...
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$95.00The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of Entertainment
Mozart’s comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo...
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$78.50Leonora's Last Act: Essays in Verdian Discourse
In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds...
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