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William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his...

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere.

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From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in Fr...

This book charts the life of Arthur Sullivan--the best loved and most widely per...

In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Narodi...

From its emergence in the sixteenth century to the phenomenon of the “Three Teno...