Cambridge Companions to Music: The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies. Edited by Nicholas Till (Hardcover)

With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms.

Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre theory, gender studies and reception history.