This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven

An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Reproduction of the original.

Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline f

The 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris is famous as a turning point in the history of French music, and modern music generally. This book explores the ways in