Opera & Operetta: A Guide to Research and Resources: Specific Genres, History & Repertoire

A sourcebook for this very French genre, with details of forgotten composers, their operas, the singers who created them, the names of important numbers in the works, often with contemporary observations

An extensive discussion of Fach and audition repertoire is followed by more than 400 arias organized by voice type. Commentary from internationally renowned singers, directors, coaches, and other professionals is also included.

Traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers

Critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera, placing well-known operas alongside lesser-known works to reveal a new historical context for re-imagining race and blackness in opera

Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.

Examines the key figures in operetta in many different countries, offers a critical and historical study of the widespread production of operetta, and challenges nationalistic views of music and approaches operetta as a cosmopolitan genre.

Investigates aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender

Comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers and a reassessment of traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism)