Next to Verdi's Ada, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Ada, La Bohme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the fo
The Art of Writing Opera-Librettos: Practical Suggestions by Edgar Istel, first published in 1922, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the gre
The Baroque Libretto catalogues the Baroque Italian operas and oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto and offers an analysis of how
Having survived her entanglement in a murder plot at the Metropolitan Opera, violinist Julia Kogan finds herself once more in operatic turmoil at the Santa Fe O
This guide to the modern musical covers the entire process of creating a show, from finding and working out the initial idea, through to the ways in which write