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Larry Wolff is Silver Professor of History at NYU, co-director of NYU Florence, and the author of The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, forthcoming in spring 2023. (September 2022)
A Halo of Nostalgia
The frivolous charms of Viennese operetta helped preserve a sense of Habsburg identity after the breakup of the empire.
The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna
by Micaela Baranello
November 4, 2021 issue
Phantasms of the Opera
The invention of gas illumination offered operagoers in the mid-nineteenth century “a completely new experience of light” that reshaped operatic composition and performance.
Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera
by Gabriela Cruz
Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera
by Gundula Kreuzer
March 11, 2021 issue
What China Sounded Like
Listening to China: Sound and the Sino-Western Encounter, 1770–1839
by Thomas Irvine
September 24, 2020 issue
I Feel Pretty
Mass
by Leonard Bernstein, performed by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, conducted by Louis Langrée, Lincoln Center, New York City, July 17–18, 2018
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein
by Jamie Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
by Paul R. Laird
September 27, 2018 issue
All the World’s a Stage
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
by Mitchell Cohen
December 7, 2017 issue
Signor Tambourossini
The Siege of Corinth
an opera by Gioachino Rossini, produced by La Fura dels Baus, at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, Italy, August 10–19, 2017
October 12, 2017 issue
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