Presents translations of librettos into verse of seven of Mozart's operas, including "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Giovanni," and "Cosi Fan Tutte," featuring a

Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.

Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas.

Both a beguiling portrait of the artist and an idiosyncratic self-portrait of the author, Mysterious Mozart is Philippe Sollers's alternately oblique and searin

London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.