Opera Bibliography
Last Updated Mar 2002
- Abbate, Carolyn.
- Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in
the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, 1991.
- Aberbach, Alan David.
- The Ideas of Richard Wagner: An Examination and Analysis of his Major
Aesthetic, Political, Economic, Social, and Religious Thoughts. Lanham,
MD: University Press of America, 1988.
- Aberbach, Alan David.
- Richard Wagner: A Mystic in the Making. Wakefield, N.H.: Longwood
Academic, 1991.
- Ashbrook, William.
- Donizetti. London: Cassell Publishers, 1965.
- Ashbrook, William.
- The Operas of Puccini. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,
1985.
- Bailey, Robert.
- The Method of Composition. In The Wagner Companion, eds.
Peter Burbidge and Richard Sutton. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1979.
- Bauman, Thomas, ed.
- Opera and the Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1995.
- Borchmeyer, Dieter.
- Richard Wagner: Theory and Theatre, translated by Stewart
Spencer. Oxford, 1991.
- Brown, Bruce Alan.
- Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna. Oxford, 1992.
- Budden, Julian.
- The Operas of Verdi. Vol 1, From Oberto to Rigoletto. New York:
Praeger, 1973; Vol. 2, From Il Trovatore to La Forza Del
Destino. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978; Vol. 3, From Don
Carlos to Falstaff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
- Budden, Julian.
- Verdi. New York: Schirmer Books, 1996.
- Burbidge, Peter and Richard Sutton, eds.
- The Wagner
Companion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
- Busch, Hans, ed.
- Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra in Letters and
Documents. Vol. 1, Letters and Telegrams. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988; Vol. 2, Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
- Busch, Hans, ed.
- Verdi's Aida: The History of an Opera in Letters and
Documents. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1978.
- Celletti, Rodolfo.
- A History of Bel Canto, translated by
Frederick Fuller. Oxford, 1991.
- Chusid, Martin.
- A Catalog of Verdi Operas. Hackensack, N.J.: Boonin, 1974
- Chusid, Martin, ed.
- Verdi's Middle Period: Source Studies, Analysis,
and Performance Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- Clement, Catherine, Translated by Betsy Wing.
- Opera, or the Undoing of Women. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1988.
- Conati, Marcello, Mario Medici and
William Weaver, eds.
- The Verdi-Boito Correspondence. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1994.
- Conrad, Peter.
- Romantic Opera and Literary Form. Berkeley, Calif.:
University of California Press, 1977.
- Cordell, Albert O. "Tim"
- The Orchestration of Verdi: A Study of the Growth of Verdi's Orchestral
Technique as Reflected in the Two Versions of Simon Boccanegra. Ph.D.
dissertation, Catholic University, 1992. University Microfilms, 1992
(see abstract).
- Dean, Winton.
- Essays on Opera. Oxford, 1991.
- Deaver, Robert.
- Opera Plots Made Easy. New York: Deaver Corporation, 1991.
- Dent, Edward. J.
- Opera. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1940.
- Dizikes, John.
- Opera in America, A Cultural History. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1993.
- Donnington, Robert.
- Opera and Its Symbols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Edwards, Geoffrey & Ryan Edwards.
- The Verdi Baritone: Studies in the Development of Dramatic
Character. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1994.
- Ennis, Jane Susanna.
- A Comparison of Wagner's Ring and William Morris's Sigurd the
Volsung. Ph.D thesis, University of Leeds, 1993.
- Grout, Donald J.
- A Short History of Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965.
- Heartz, Daniel.
- Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School 1740-1780.
New York: Norton & Company, 1995.
- Hepokoski, James.
- Giuseppe Verdi: 'Otello'. Cambridge, 1987.
- Jellinek, George.
- History Through the Opera Glass. White Plains, NY: Pro/Am Music
Resources/Dist. Bold Strummer (BSL), 1994.
- Jensen, Luke.
- Giuseppe Verdi and Giovanni Ricordi with Notes on Francesco Lucca:
From "Oberto" to "La traviata." New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.,
1989 (see abstract).
- John, Nicholas, ed.
- Violetta and Her Sisters, "The Lady of the Camelias" -
Responses to the Myth. Faber & Faber, 1994.
- Kerman, Joseph.
- Opera as Drama.
- Kerman, Joseph.
- "Lyric form and flexibilty
in 'Simon Boccanegra' in Studi Verdiani 1, 1982.
- Kimbell, David.
- Italian Opera. Cambridge, 1991.
- Kimbell, David.
- Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1981.
- Koopman, John.
- A Brief History of Singing. Appleton, WI.,
1994.
- Koury, Daniel J.
- Orchestral Performance Practices in the Nineteenth Century.
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986.
- Mann, William.
- Richard Strauss - A Critical Study of the Operas
New York: Oxford University Press,1966
- Magee, Elizabeth.
- Richard Wagner and the Nibelungs. Oxford, 1991.
- Martin, George.
- Verdi: His life and Times. New York: Dodd, Mead and
Company, 1963.
- Michele, Girardi.
- Giacomo Puccini: L'arte internazionale di un musicista italiano.
Venice: Marsilio, 1995
- (512 pp., 190 musical examples, complete list of works, selected
bibliography)
- Morgan., Christopher.
- Don Carlos and Company. Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Noske, Frits.
- The Signifier and the Signified. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,
1977; Paperback ed. by Oxford Univesity Press, 1990.
- Orrey, Leslie, rev. Rodney Milnes.
- Opera, A Concise History. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987.
- Osborne, Charles.
- The Operas of Verdi. London: Victor Gollancz Ldt., 1969.
- Palisca, Claude.
- Baroque Music. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
- Parker, Roger.
- "'Un giorno di Regno': From Romani's libretto to Verdi's Opera" in
Studi Verdiani 2, 1983.
- Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane.
- Verdi: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
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- Puccini, D.
- "Il 'Simon Boccanegra' di A. Garcia Gutierrez e l'opera di Giuseppe
Verdi" in Studi Verdiani 3, 1985.
- Rosand, Ellen.
- Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice: The Creation
of a Genre. California, 1991.
- Rossi, Nick.
- Domenico Cimarossa: His Life and His Operas. Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press, 1999.
- Russo, Paolo.
- La Parola e il gesto. Studi sull'opera francese nel Settecento
Lucca: LIM, 1997.
- Sadie, Stanley, ed.
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London:
Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1980.
- Sadie, Stanley, ed.
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London:
Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1992.
- Schmidgall, Gary.
- Literature as Opera. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
- Sforza, Francesco.
- Grandi Teatri Italiani. Rome: Editalia, 1993 (see abstract).
- Smith, Patrick.
- The Tenth Muse: A Historical Study of the Opera
Libretto. New York: Schirmer Books, 1975.
- Spotts, Daniel.
- Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1994.
- Strunk, Oliver.
- Source Readings in Music History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company,
1965.
- Sutcliffe, Tom.
- Believing in Opera. London & Princeton: Faber and Faber &
Princeton University Press, 1996 & 1997.
- Traubner, Richard.
- Operetta, A Theatrical History. New York: Doubleday, 1983.
- Travis, Francis.
- Verdi's Orchestration. Zurich: Juris, 1956
- Weaver, William and Martin
Chusid, eds.
- The Verdi Companion. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1979.
- Weaver, William and Simonetta Puccini, eds.
- The Puccini Companion. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1994.
- Werfel, Franz and Paul Stefan.
- Verdi: The Man in His Letters. New York: Vienna House, 1973.
- Westernhagen, Curt Von.
- Wagner: A Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Addendum:
Non-Opera Sources
- Turabian, Kate L.
- A Manual for Writers. 5th Edition. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 1987.
- 5 May 1998 by Professor Tim Cordell (Cordell@edinboro.edu)
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