National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I: Italy, France, England and the Americas

Series: Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies

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 indiv