Giuseppe Verdi

• Abramo Basevi, Studio sulle opere di Giuseppe Verdi (1859). Monumental, musically-focused study of Verdi's operas.

• Video from Verdi, Rigoletto, Act 3 ("La donna è mobile" and the ensuing quartet at 1:26:32):

Johann Strauss, Jr.

• Video of Rosalinde's "Klänge der Heimat" from Die Fledermaus:

Further Reading

Links to WorldCat except where specified.

• Ainger, Michael. Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.  

• Balthazar, Scott L. The Cambridge Companion to Verdi. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

• Budden, Julian. The Operas of Verdi, 3 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.  

• Crittenden, Camille. Johann Strauss and Vienna: Operetta and the Politics of Popular Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 

• Gossett, Phillip. "'Edizioni distrutte' and the Significance of Operatic Choruses during the Risorgimento." In Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu, edited by Victoria Johnson, Janne F. Fulcher, and Thomas Ertman, 181-242. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

• Hadlock, Heather. Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 

• Huebner, Steven. The Operas of Charles Gounod. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.  

• Kracauer, Siegfried. Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time, trans. Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher. New York: Zone, 2002.  

• Locke, Ralph P. “Beyond the Exotic: How ‘Eastern’ is Aida?” Cambridge Opera Journal 17 (2005), 105–39. [link to JSTOR]

• MacKenzie, John M. Orientalism: History, Theory, and the Arts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.  

• Martin, George. "Verdi, Politics, and 'Va, pensiero': The Scholars Squabble."Opera Quarterly 21:1 (2005): 109-132.

• McClary, Susan. Georges Bizet: Carmen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.  

• Parker, Roger. Leonora’s Last Act: Essays in Verdian Discourse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.  

• Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane. Verdi: A Biography. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.  

• Robinson, Paul. “Is Aida an Orientalist Opera?” Cambridge Opera Journal 5 (1993), 133–40. [link to JSTOR] 

• Said, Edward. “The Empire at Work: Verdi’s Aida.” In Said, Culture and Imperialism, 111-32. New York: Knopf, 1993.

• Traubner, Richard. Operetta: A Theatrical History, rev. ed. New York: Routledge, 2003. 

• Williams, Carolyn. Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.