Perhaps the most comprehensive study of opera to date, and certainly it is unrivalled in the English language. Â In its richness of ideas, comprehensive coverage of a diversity of opera houses and local practices, multi layerings of …Read More
Perhaps the most comprehensive study of opera to date, and certainly it is unrivalled in the English language. Â In its richness of ideas, comprehensive coverage of a diversity of opera houses and local practices, multi layerings of readings, and exhaustive bibliography, this is a truly extraordinary achievement that will offer much to scholars of eighteenth-century opera. Â 46 halftones and 26 musical examples. Â Paperback, 576 p.