The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

This is another useful addition to the Cambridge Companions to Music series, this time covering an area of music which has received less scholarly attention than others until the second half of the twentieth century. Nicholas Till and his contributors show themselves well qualified to bring together a range of different aspects of study around the combination of music and drama that is opera. It is surprising that this area has been neglected in this way, given the vastness in terms of musical writing, plot development and sheer scale of production for so many operatic works, particularly since the late...