A newly translated Libretto featuring foreign language/English side-by-side, and music examples interspersed throughout the text.

A comprehensive guide to Verdi's A MASKED BALL, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto, with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.

Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.