National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I

Opera in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914)

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived:

Places - essays centering on contexts for operatic culture;

Genres and Styles - studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together;

Critical Studies - of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends;

Performance.