Examines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel se

This book is concerned with a hundred years of musical drama in England. It charts the development of the genre from the theatre works of Henry Purcell (and his

What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas ex

How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our understanding of the musician, the man and the icon?

Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera