Literature as opera

An opening perspective.

George Frideric Handel: Orlando, Ariodante, Alcina.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro.

Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda and Lucia di Lammermoor.

Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini.

Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin.

Richard Strauss: Salome.

Alban Berg: Wozzeck.

Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice.

Afterword: The crisis of modern opera.

Literature as opera, a symposium.