Staging the liturgy

In the decades following the Second Vatican Council, Catholic liturgy became an area of considerable interest and debate, if not controversy, in the West. Mid-late 20th century lit...

This chapter examines the dominance of Lutheran orthodoxy in Leipzig from the beginning of the German Reformation to the nineteenth century. Lutheran orthodoxy was an older, more C...

This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts that formed the core o...

Pierre Kapitaniak follows up on Laroque’s study by turning to witchcraft and demonology. Doing so, he examines the tenuous line distinguishing superstition from science, and analys...

Abstract This book explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twenti...

The history of Vincenzo Bellini’s operas on stage, on screen, and in sound and video art is presented in nine case studies in Bellini on Stage and Screen. The composer’s oeuvre and...

You are getting ready for a performance of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and you have a few questions. How many clarinets are in the orchestra? How many orchestra members appear ons...