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General Histories and Guides to Opera
- A History of Opera byCall Number: ML1700 .A22 2015
- A short history of opera byCall Number: ML1700 .G83 2003An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- The magic of opera byCall Number: ML1700 .K6 1984b
- Opera : a listener's guide byCall Number: ML1700 .S13 1997An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- The joy of opera byCall Number: ML1700 .D69 1996This text explores singers, opera companies, and stagings. Douglas presents anecdotes, illustrations, and pictures.
- Ticket to the opera : discovering and exploring 100 famous works, history, lore, and singers, with recommended recordings byCall Number: ML1700 .G746 1996
- The Cambridge companion to grand opera byCall Number: ML1700 .C16 2003
- Opera in history : from Monteverdi to Cage byCall Number: ML1700 .L54 1998An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- The chronicle of opera byCall Number: ML1700 .R27 1998An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
Early Opera through the Classical Period
- Opera: v. 1. Up to MozartCall Number: ML1700 .O63 1985 v.1Reprint of articles and essays originally published 1952-1982
- Of poetry and music's power : humanism and the creation of opera byCall Number: ML1702 .H36
- Opera and the Enlightenment byCall Number: ML1720.3 .O64 1995An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- Opera seria and the evolution of classical style, 1755-1772 byCall Number: ML1704 .W44 1984
- Ancient Rome in early opera byCall Number: ML1700 .K47 2009
- Mozart and his operas byCall Number: ML410.M9 C253 2006
- The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera byCall Number: ML1704 .C36 2009
19th Century
- Opera Acts byCall Number: ML1705 .H56 2015
- Opera: v. 2. Mozart and afterCall Number: ML1700 .O63 1985 v.2Reprint of articles and essays originally published 1952-1982
- The rise of romantic opera byCall Number: ML1704.D46
- Grand opera : mirror of the western mind byCall Number: ML1700 .P58 1993
- The Cambridge companion to grand opera byCall Number: ML1700 .C16 2003
20th Century
- The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century opera byCall Number: ML1700 .C17 2005
- The opera of the twentieth century : a passionate art in transition byCall Number: ML1705 .S33 2006
Analysis Texts
- Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas byCall Number: MT95 .L37 2008
- Analyzing opera : Verdi and Wagner byCall Number: MT95 .A59 1989
Opera and Gender
- Angels and monsters : male and female sopranos in the story of opera, 1600-1900 byCall Number: ML1700 .S69 2004An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- Opera in the flesh : sexuality in operatic performance byCall Number: ML1700 .A24 1996
- Opera, or, The undoing of women byCall Number: ML2100 .C613 1988
- En travesti : women, gender subversion, opera byCall Number: ML2100 .E6 1995An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
Opera and Politics
- Opera and politics : from Monteverdi to Henze byCall Number: ML1700 .B74 1997An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- The operatic state : cultural policy and the opera house byCall Number: ML1700 .B47 2002An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- Viva la libertà! : politics in opera byCall Number: ML1700 .A7 1992An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
Various Books
- When literature becomes opera : study of a transformational process byCall Number: ML1700 .R67 1999
- Opera and the uses of language : Mozart, Verdi, and Britten byCall Number: ML1700 .C7 1987
- Phantasmagoria : a sociology of opera byCall Number: ML1700 .E92 1999
- Opera through other eyes byCall Number: ML1700 .O68 1993
- Opera and its symbols : the unity of words, music, and staging byCall Number: ML1700 .D665 1990
- Opera as drama byCall Number: ML3858 .K4 1988
- Operatic subjects : the evolution of self in modern opera byCall Number: ML1700 .C73 2000An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
Books with collected essays
- Essays on opera byCall Number: ML1700 .D4 1993
- Opera from the Greek : studies in the poetics of appropriation byCall Number: ML1700 .E93 2007
- Opera : a history in documents byCall Number: ML1700 .O644 2002An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- Grand opera : mirror of the western mind byCall Number: ML1700 .P58 1993An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- The work of opera : genre, nationhood, and sexual difference byCall Number: ML1700 .W67 1997An extensive table of contents listing is available in the on-line catalog under the "full record" tab.
- First nights at the opera byCall Number: ML1720 .K45 2004
- The Don Giovanni moment : essays on the legacy of an opera byCall Number: ML410.M9 D63 2006
- Inside the Ring : essays on Wagner's opera cycle byCall Number: ML410.W15 I53 2006