Opera - selected bibliography

The New Grove dictionary of opera. edited by Stanley Sadie; managing 
editor, Christina Bashford. 4v. London : Macmillan Press; New York: 
Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc., [distributor], 1992.

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Drone, Jeanette Marie. Index to Opera, Operetta, and Musical Comedy
synopses in collections and periodicals. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow
Press, 1978. 

Dizikes, John. Opera in America - A Cultural History. New Haven CT: Yale
University Press, 1993.

Earl of Harewood, The. The New Kobb's Complete Opera Book. New York: G.P.
Putnam's Sons, 1976.

Horowitz, Joseph. Wagner Nights: An American History. California Studies 
in 19th Century Music, no. 9. Berkeley: UC Press, 1994.

Jones, F. O., ed. A Handbook of American Music and Musicians, Containing 
Biographies of American Musicians and Histories of the Principal Musical 
Institutions, Firms and Societies. Canaseraga, NY: 1886. Reprint, NY: 1971.

Kornick, R. H. Recent American Opera: a production guide. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1991.

Lazarus, John. The Opera Handbook. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1987. 

Martin, G. The Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera. New York: Dodd Mead,
1989.

Mates, Julian. The American Musical Stage before 1800. New Brunswick, 
NJ: 1962.

Mondadori, Arnold, ed. The Simon and Schuster Book of the Opera. Milano:
Simon and Schuster, 1977.

Mordden, Ethan. Opera in the Twentieth Century: Sacred, Profane, Godot. New
York.

Northouse, Cameron. Twentieth-Century Opera in England and the
United States. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., l976.

Ottenberg, June C. Opera Odyssey: Toward A History of Opera in 
Nineteenth-Century America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Pauly, Reinhard. Music and the Theatre. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
Hall, 1970.

Sonneck, Oscar G. Early Opera in America. NY: 1915. Reprint, NY: 1963.

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