Cooke Mervyn (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera

Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 417 p. — (Cambridge Companion). — ISBN10: 0521783933, 0521780098.Celebrating the extraordinary diversity of operatic achievements in the twentieth century, this Companion brings together the work of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Beginning with a survey of operatic legacies, the volume analyzes regional styles and aesthetic trends, and features essays on opera and film, popular operetta and the musical, avant-garde music theatre and minimalism, market forces, changing styles and production trends.