National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera Volume II

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the long nineteenth century giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and the operas of Richard Strauss and Janácek. The essays reflect diverse methods ranging from stylistic philological and historical approaches to those rooted in hermeneutics critical theory and post-modernist inquiry.