Carolyn Abbate, professor of music at Harvard University, is the author of Unsung Voices and In Search of Opera. She writes on film, philosophy, and opera and has also worked as a translator and dramaturge. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Roger Parker, professor of music at King's College London, writes on opera and music in London. He is the author of Leonora's Last Act and Remaking the Song and was a founding coeditor of the Cambridge Opera Journal. He lives in Hampshire.
[A History of Opera] will surely become essential reading for
anyone seeking an engaging and highly informed chronicle of the
great composers and their works.--Daniel Snowman "Opera"
There's reason to applaud a new volume like...A History of Opera,
in which vast scholarly authority is put to the service of a
narrative both lucid and sweeping.--Jeremy Eichler "Boston Globe"
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