(Faber Piano Adventures ). An excellent collection of symphonic and operatic works by the great composers. The pieces were chosen for their appealing melodies a

A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.

A definitive reference for the diction, pronunciation and translation of Lustige Witwe authored by the leading authority (Nico Castel) on opera diction.

"When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese ope

Widow Catherine Rose Hill had vowed she would never again answer to a man. But when a stuffy hardheaded banker with sexy eyes challenged her hard-won independen