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

Essays on thirty-eight operas.

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.

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