Opera & Operetta: A Guide to Research and Resources

Introduction to the birth of opera and its first century of developments, from its Italian foundations to its growth through Europe and the Americas.

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

Challenges the idea that the late 19th century was a period of decline for the opera singer, exploring four singers' ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media, playing a crucial role in the creation of opera in their time.

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

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

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.

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.

Uses opera as a framework to generate new arguments at the heart of the discussion about Latin America: the allure of European cultural models, the ambivalence of exoticism, the claims of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and Latin America's place in the global circulation of the arts.

Addresses the changing historical depictions of Indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary practices of Indigenous and First Nations artists.