Lexicon opera

The new encyclopedia presents the total work of art opera in the diversity of its elements. In addition to factual articles on text and music, subject and dramaturgy, score and performance, musical and scenic interpretation, stage and audience, production and reception, it also includes entries on the themes of the libretti. It honors opera composers from Jacopo Peri and Claudio Monteverdi to Adriana Hölszky and Salvatore Sciarrino, describes the places where opera is performed worldwide, and dedicates extensive attention to those without whom the event of opera would not take place - the impresarios and directors, the stage directors and set designers, and, above all, the singers. Alongside these lexical entries, there are larger essays that reflect in detail on central questions of understanding opera - such as the relationship between opera and film, opera and nationalism, opera and director's theater.