The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies

By: Nicholas Till

Book Overview

With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre theory, gender studies and reception history. Written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521671698
• ISBN13: 9780521671699
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.6"