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.