Books Received

Inclusion in this listing does not preclude review in future issues.

Brett, Philip. Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays. Edited by George E. Haggerty, with an introduction by Susan McClary and an after word by Jenny Doctor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 295 pages, $60.00, £38.95 (cloth); $24.95, £15.95 (paper).

Brown-Montesano, Kristi. Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 341 pages, $39.95, £26.95.

Carnegy, Patrick. Wagner and the Art of the Theatre. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, 479 pages, $48.00, £35.00.

Cowgill, Rachel and Julian Rushton, editors. Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 318 pages, $99.95, £50.00.

Dean, Winton. Handel's Operas, 1726–1741. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006, 585 pages, $85.00, £49.00.

Jackson, Paul. Start-up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1966–1976. Pompton Plains, NJ: Amadeus Press, 2006, 656 pages, $49.95.

Keefe, Simon P., editor. Mozart Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 263 pages, $85.00, £48.00.

Locke, Brian S. Opera and Ideology in Prague: Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900–1938. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006, 452 pages, $79.00, £45.00.

Melograni, Piero. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, 315 pages, $30.00, £19.00.

Newman, Dann. Tales of a Theatrical Guru. With a foreword by Studs Terkel. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006, 376 pages, $29.95.

Osborne, Charles. The Opera Lover's Companion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004, 640 pages, paperback edition, 2007, 640 pages, $22.00, £12.99.

Randall, Annie J. and Rosalind Gray Davis. Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of “The Girl of the Golden West.”Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, paperback edition, 2006, 256 pages, $24.00, £15.50.

Romano, Dennis. The Likeness of Venice: A Life of the Doge Francesco Foscari, 1373–1457. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007, 494 pages, $35.00, £25.00.

Rushton, Julian. The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 246 pages, $16.95, £26.99.

Smith, Matthew Wilson. The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace. New York: Routledge, 2007, 240 pages, $120.00 (cloth); $31.95 (paper).

Sachs, Harvey, editor and translator. The Letters of Arturo Toscanini. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, 494 pages, $22.50, £14.50.

Thomas, Hugh. Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007, 192 pages, $25.00, £16.00.

Williams, Bernard. On Opera. With an introduction by Michael Tanner. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, 168 pages, $30.00.

Musical Scores

Nina ossia La pazza per amore: Commedia d'un atto in prosa ed in verso, e per musica (Monza 1788). Edizione critica a cura di Davide Daolmi. Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2006, 276 pages and DVD, €40.00.