This book is a complete guide to the magic spells that the lyric diction of Italian Opera has cast on its audience for the last four hundred years, revealed and

The first comprehensive study of the dominant form of solo singing in Renaissance Italy prior to the mid-sixteenth century.

The late Doscher was a singing teacher at the U. of Colorado-Boulder. This volume compiles the note cards on songs and arias that she composed in order to aid h

"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers�

From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen – whose subject has become a m