Books Received
Books Received
Inclusion in this listing does not preclude review in future issues.
Cairns, David. Mozart and His Operas. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006, 301 pages, $29.95.
Chafe, Eric. The Tragic and the Ecstatic: The Musical Revolution of Wagner's"Tristan and Isolde." New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 333 pages, $60.00, £35.99.
Cooke, Mervyn, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 421 pages, $34.99, £19.99.
DiGaetani, John Louis. Inside the"Ring": Essays on Wagner's Opera Cycle. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2006, 268 pages, $39.95.
Elliott, Martha. Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 368 pages, $40.00, £22.50.
Glixon, Beth L., and Jonathan E. Glixon. Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 415 pages, $50.00, £29.99.
Guo, Qitao. Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage: The Confucian Transformation of Popular Culture in Late Imperial Huizhou. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005, 366 pages, $70.00.
Kelly, Thomas Forrest. First Nights at the Opera. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004, paperback edition, 2006, 441 pages, $23.00, £12.99.
Marvin, Roberta Montemorra, and Downing A. Thomas, editors. Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries. Aldershot, UK.: Ashgate, 2006, 274 pages, $124.95, £65.00.
Olsen, Solveig. Hans Jürgen Syberberg and His Film of Wagner's"Parsifal." Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005, 564 pages, $63.00.
Parker, Roger. Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006, 179 pages, $29.95, £18.95.
Waeber, Jacqueline. En Musique dans le texte. Le mélodrame, de Rousseau à Schoenberg. Paris: Van Dieren Éditeur, 2005, 511 pages, Ä45.00.
Waldoff, Jessica. Recognition in Mozart's Operas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 337 pages, $45.00, £26.99.
