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"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers�

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexual

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-cen

Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, bringing to life the men and women who successfully established the new genre on the stage