Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and …
What is opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing …
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism—the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and …