This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven

Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house tha

This book articulates a new research program, called “Ur-Illuminism,” which consists in an integrated and systematic study of humanity’s quest for “illu

A lively history of French opera in its cultural and historical context by one of France's leading musicologists.