Opera Books

Ethan Mordden Includes new, previously unpublished interviews Enriches and expands upon the story begun in the original Opera Anecdotes Features t...

E NewmanInstructor: James KurtzThe Wagner OperasErnest Newman

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

Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur, Second Edition, is an update to the first practical guide for opera coaches when work...

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...

Translating the text of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is a monumental task that few have successfully undertaken. Here, however, Stewart Sp...

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...

Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of ope...

Makes available in reliable English translation Wagner's original Siegfried libretto and his early essay on the Nibelung myth. In 1848 Richard Wag...

by Winton Dean Detailed overview of Handel's final 22 operas - including major masterpieces such as Orlando, Ariodante and Alcina and the brilliant...

What’s Really Going On! Iris J. Arnesen This book contains analyses of the stories and music of nine operas, presented in chronological order from ...

John Louis DiGaetani Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fa...

"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...

(40 Years of Musical Mishaps)By Andrew Foldi A collection of humorous reminiscences by the famous basso who has performed in virtually every major...

The first volume of this monumental study of Handel's operatic works, covering the first seventeen operas. This first of the classic two-volume sur...

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...

From operas presented in reconfigured army barracks to those mounted on a stage rivaling that of New York's Metropolitan Opera House, Indiana Unive...

by, Alan Montgomery "Opera Coaching "is the first practical guide for pianists, singers, and opera producers to this important--and often neglected...

by, Richard Traubner "Operetta: A Theatrical History" is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, fi...