This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both

Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876–1888), steeped in r

Alessandra Campana explores how operas and their stage manuals participated in the making of a modern public in late nineteenth-century Italy.

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