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Virgin Islands
An island paradise in the sunny Caribbean appears perfect to the unsuspecting tourist looking for a pleasant summer vacation getaway. But looks can be deceiving during a book …
Phantom of The Opera
A Poetics of Handel's Operas
What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question …
Last Days of the Opera
The Origin of Language
What can the classification of languages tell us about human origins and human prehistory? This book presents a popular account of the origin of language. It is intended for an …
The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its …
Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France
This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and …
Opera and the Politics of Tragedy
A curated collection of Enlightenment operas, paintings, and literary works that were all marked by the "e;Telemacomania"e; scandal, a furious cultural frenzy with …
Operas of Alban Berg, Volume I
"e;Of the greatest significance . . . . The first volume of George Perle's two volume study on the two operas of Alban Berg ... is one of those few works of scholarship and …