Leading scholars investigate the ways in which operas by nineteenth-century Italian composers have been reshaped and revived over time.

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

Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And for contemporary audiences, many of thes

Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at present, and kno

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the ninete