This volume is a reference source to literature in the English language throughout the world. It provides a survey of the world-wide literary tradition of this

Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas

By making systematic use of the mostly unpublished Opera Archive, Mead fills in the missing links to previous investigations and unlocks the significance of thi

This reference is a companion to "The Wordsworth Book of Opera". It explains technical terms, outlines the plots, together with anecdotes of famous performances

Letters and journals form the basis for this illuminating account of the lives of the women of the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey households. It tells the st