The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage, 1647-1742

By Sarah Colvin

The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

By Georgia J. Cowart

"Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the...

A Short History of the Opera

By Grout Donald Jay.

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

By Philip Gossett

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

By Philip Gossett

Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera

By John A. Rice

Bringing Salieri, his operas, and eighteenth-century Viennese theater vividly to life, Rice places Salieri where he belongs: no longer lurking in Mozart's shadow, but standing proudly among the lea...

Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera

By John A. Rice

Opera Observed

By William C. Holmes

Verdi's theater

By Gilles De Van

Gilles de Van focuses on an often neglected aspect of Verdi's operas: their effectiveness as theater. De Van argues that two main aesthetic conceptions underlie all of Verdi's works: that of the "m...

Seventeenth century opera and the sound of the commedia dell arte

By Emily Wilbourne

Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds of Italian opera and commedia dell'arte, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, Wilbourne brilliantly shows how the sound of co...