Written by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, out

Provides synopses of forty-seven operas, a history of the opera, and a glossary of operatic terms.

The first comprehensive attempt to map the current field of opera studies by leading scholars in the discipline.

Essays on thirty-eight operas.

This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a di