Music: Styles & Genres

Things like this are written only for people who have good powers of endurance (so really for nobody!), wrote Wagner about Die Walküre. Yet, as Geo...

In this guide to Verdis popular opera, Marcello Conati of the Institute for Verdi Studies points out that, although audiences have always adored it...

The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert, witty, caustic and disrespectful,...

The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and the other great Savoy libretti, W S Gilbert, witty, caustic and disrespectful, ...

Growing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful struggle for civil rights. After...

Among the features of this guide to La Cenerentola, Philip Gossett throws new light on the remarkable story of the operas composition, while Colin ...

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were...

This is a double volume dedicated to two masterpieces by Benjamin Britten. While Peter Grimes established Britten as a composer of international st...

'D'Oyly Carte: The Inside Story' looks at the life of the historic D'Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1950 and its sad demise in 1982. After thrill...

Verdi''s Simon Boccanegra exists in two versions: that of the 1857 original and that of the 1881 revision. The texts of the libretto of both versio...

In 1972 Elias Canetti said that 'with Wozzeck Buchner achieved the most complete revolution in the whole of literature'. The same can be said of Be...

The legend of the Swan Knight who rescues a princess from the forces of pagan evil is one of the foundation myths of Christian Europe. Lohengrin's ...

Das Rheingold, the opening of Wagner's four-part Ring of Nibelung, stands out as more genteel and picturesque than the others. But it immediately e...

Although it is impossible to trace any one particular theme running through the operas of Michael Tippett, the libretti of his four operas are fasc...

This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of operas many travels between continents, co...

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, La Divina Assoluta, remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensationa...