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Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville’s nautical allegory, is one of Britten’s most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical …
The Rake’s Progress is Stravinsky’s biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. …
Summarises what is currently known about Otello and interprets its significance within Verdi's career.
Kát'a Kabanová is both the first Janácek opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and the USA. In this book John …
This full-length study of Salome is the first in English since Lawrence Gilman’s introductory guide of 1907. The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical …
Bizet’s Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This …
The first comprehensive guide to Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy’s only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a …
This is a series of studies of individual operas written for the opera-goer or record-collector as well as the student or scholar. Each volume has three main concerns: historical, …
Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) is universally acknowledged as Richard Wagner’s first truly significant, original work. It is the earliest of Wagner’s operatic …
This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of …