Books Received

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

Michael Ainger. Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 527 pages, $45.00

Richard Barber, editor. King Arthur in Music. Arthurian Studies 52. Cambridge and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2002, 198 pages, $75.00

Jennifer Barnes. Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television. Woodbridge and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2003, 134 pages, $50.00

Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli, editors. Opera on Stage. Translations from the Italian by Kate Singleton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, 360 pages, $55.00

Mark Everist. Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 349 pages, $60.00

Michele Girardi. Puccini: His International Art. Translated by Laura Basini. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000, 546 pages, $40.00 (paper)

Diana R. Hallman. Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy's "La Juive." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 408 pages, $70.00

Siegfried Kracauer. Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time. Translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. New York: Zone Books, 2002, 418 pages, $35.00

Abram Loft. How to Succeed in an Ensemble: Reflections on a Life in Chamber Music. Portland, Ore.: Amadeus Press, 2003, 300 pages, $24.95

Stephen C. Meyer. Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003, 253 pages, $39.95

Roger Nichols. The Harlequin Years: Music in Paris 1917-1929. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 288 pages, $34.95

Walter Pitman. Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture. Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2002, 512 pages, $39.99 (Canadian)

Richard T. Soper. Belgian Opera Houses and Singers. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Company, 1999, 526 pages, $60.00

Emma Sutton. Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 235 pages, $65.00