Books in the The Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies series

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. This book includes essays that capture the principal themes of the research: the 'idea' of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera.

Features the essays that pertain to Italian opera, and concern opera production in France, England, Spain, and the Germanic countries.

Explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.

Offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the nineteenth century, emphasising on four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and, the operas of Richard Strauss and Janacek.

This volume reprints articles that cover an array of significant twentieth-century operas and critical questions about them. The anthologized articles are organized according to the place of origin of the operas discussed in each of them.

Covers opera in Italy, France, England, and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). This book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places; Genres and Styles; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and, Performance.