Grand Opera Reading List

Operas of Verdi. 3 Volumes.

by Julian Budden
A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera (Graywolf Rediscovery Series)

by Peter Conrad
The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (Cambridge Companions to Music)

Cambridge University Press
Opera and its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music and Staging

by Robert Donington
Good Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen!: Intermission Scripts from the Met Broadcasts

by Boris Goldovsky
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

by Philip Gossett
A Short History of Opera, Fourth Edition

by Donald Jay; Williams, Hermine Weigel Grout
Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music

by Robert W. Gutman
The New Kobbe's Complete Opera Book

by Earl Harewood
Famous Mozart Operas; an Analytical Guide for the Opera-Goer and Armchair Listener

by spike hughes
The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century

by Hervé Lacombe
Opera: The Extravagant Art

by Herbert Lindenberger
The Lyric Opera Companion: The History, Lore, and Stories of the Worlds Greatest Operas

by Lyric Opera of Chicago
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement

by Simon Morrison
Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

by Fred Plotkin
Verdi

by Joseph Wechsberg
Opera: A History in Documents

by Piero Weiss