Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.

Finally -- a complete Italian grammar course that addresses the specific needs of singers translating opera librettos, with their archaic forms and poetic synta

The Baroque Libretto catalogues the Baroque Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto and offers an analysis of how

This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in which write