Provides synopses of forty-seven operas, a history of the opera, and a glossary of operatic terms.

The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.

Written by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, out

This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a di

One of the most successful musicals of all time, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Phantom Of The Opera' has now been adapted for the cinema. This book traces the 'Pha