One of the biggest stumbling blocks we hit when setting out to make our dreams come true is appreciating what is going well. Most of us have an unfortunate tend

Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often d

La Horda

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.