古典，歌剧，轻歌剧，音乐剧

Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the ‘culture wars’ of the day. This last of a trilogy of books on opera …

Investigates cinematic qualities in opera and reveals why Benjamin Britten’s operas lend themselves to TV and film interpretations. Benjamin Britten’s 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry …

Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early mod …

“[Sharon] challenges the status quo and proposes radical new ways to present operas new and old. Expect insight, originality and some contentious views that will stimulate debate.” —Richard Fairman, …

‘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 analysis you can label ‘defi …

Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral. Perhaps u …

Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison’s influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including p …

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dial …

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri—sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday—Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic wor …

‘The first volume of Perle’s magnificent study focused on Wozuck … .Its successor, equally painstaking and perceptive, is if anything more invaluable, for the clouds of mystery around Berg’s second …