Books Received
Inclusion in this listing does not preclude review in future issues.
John Ardoin. Valery Gergiev and the Kirov: A Story of Survival. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 2001, 296 pages, $34.95
Jeffrey L. Buller. Classically Romantic: Classical Form and Meaning in Wagner's "Ring." N.p.: Xlibris, 2001, 221 pages, $25.00 (cloth), $16.00 (paper)
Anne Edwards. Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001, 351 pages, $27.95
Dana Gioia. Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto (Based on the Film by F. W. Murnau). Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2001, 108 pages, $12.95
Johann Adam Hiller. Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation. Translated and edited by Suzanne J. Beicken. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 208 pages, $64.95
J. K. Holman. Wagner's "Ring": A Listener's Companion and Concordance. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 1996, 440 pages, $19.95
James Keolker. Last Acts: The Operas of Puccini and His Italian Contemporaries from Alfano to Zandonai. Napa, Calif.: Opera Companion Publications, 2000, 598 pages, $29.95
Elise K. Kirk. American Opera. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001, 471 pages, $34.95
Jacqueline Letzter and Robert Adelson. Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, 359 pages, $48.00
Judith Milhous, Gabriella Dideriksen, and Robert D. Hume. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London. Vol. 2, The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath 1789-1795. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, 913 pages, $125.00
Katherine K. Preston. Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-60. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2001, 496 pages, $39.95 (cloth), $22.50 (paper)
Anne Siberell. Bravo! Brava! A Night at the Opera: Behind the Scenes with Composers, Cast, and Crew. Introduction by Frederica von Stade. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 64 pages, $19.95
John Warrack. German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. Cambridge Studies in Opera. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 463 pages, $64.95
Zitkala-Sa. Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and "The Sun
Dance Opera." Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, 195
pages, $22.95