Alessandra Campana explores how operas and their stage manuals participated in the making of a modern public in late nineteenth-century Italy.

At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness th

This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both

This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. C

This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as prota