National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I

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; and performance.