Bibliography

H. Graf, Opera for the People (2d ed. 1969); R. G. Pauly, Music and the Theater: An Introduction to Opera (1970); J. Wechsberg, The Opera (1972); L. Orrey, A Concise History of Opera (1973); S. Braubard, The Future of Opera (1988); D. Grout, A Short History of Opera (3d ed. 1988); C. Headington et al., ed., Opera: A History (1988); S. Sadie, Opera (1988) and, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1998); P. Gossett, Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (2006). For studies of librettos see P. J. Smith, The Tenth Muse (1971) and A. H. Drummond, American Opera Librettos (1973). For books containing summaries of opera plots, see M. J. Cross, Complete Stories of the Great Operas (1952), More Stories of the Great Operas (1971), and The Victor Book of the Opera (13th ed., ed. by H. W. Simon, 1968); R. H. Kornick, Recent American Opera (1991).

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