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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What Nietzsche called the 'sweet and terrible infinity' of its basic nexus of longing …
Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust
The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French …
Rounding Wagner's Mountain
Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's …
Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France
This comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835) is a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and …
Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses
In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in …
Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in the 19th century. She earned nearly $5000 a night and had her own railway carriage; yet during the same period a minor comic …
The Puccini Problem
A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. …
Gretry and the Growth of Opera-comique
This is the first book in English on Gretry and the only recent study of opera-comique. Opera-comique is the operatic genre that lies behind The Magic Flute and Fidelio. David …
The Rival Sirens
The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from …