Opera

Eric, the Phantom of the Opera, was so disgustingly ugly that, “his mother would never let him kiss her, she would throw his mask at him and run away”....

Forced to flee his home and his mother’s murderous rage when he removes his mask, his greatest desire is to be loved for himself. At the tender age of seven, he must fight for survival in a hostile world where the threat of starvation is the least of the abuses he suffers....

Fifty-year-old Bill Harness is on a strange but seemingly benign journey, rambling across the country in an old Pontiac and leaving large anonymous...

An American opera singer travels to Naples and becomes embroiled in his strangest role yet....

"Physiology of the Opera" by John H. Swaby describes the opera and its actors in great detail - on the stage and behind the curtains...

Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might make us cry, but the idea of finding out more about classical music can often be intimidating....

Edge of the Flame is a twist on the tale of The Phantom of the Opera. The infamous Phantom narrates this version giving the reader a remarkable insight into the brilliant mind and tortured heart of the complex character....

A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero....

It is March, 1929. Cyrus Skeen is called to New York by his father, Garnett Skeen, to attend to some trust fund affairs....

Walter Tinner, who considers himself the world's greatest tenor (even if no one else does) comes to visit his cousin, Amber, and discovers to his ...

In this penetrating study narrated by leading British voice-artist Tanya S. Bartlett, Michael Norris tells the complete story behind Dickens's writing of the book....

John Denver said, “I have a producer who looks like an accountant, and an accountant who looks like a producer”. Soberly dressed, unflashy, and a trained classical musician, in the golden age of the music business, Milt Okun stood out by not standing out....

The Saddest Music Ever Written captures the deep emotion Barber's great elegy has stirred throughout the world during its seventy-five-year history, becoming an icon of our national soul....

In a public debate held at the Manhattan Opera House, Clarence Darrow argued that not one of the 19 men under sentence of death at Sing Sing Prison would have been convicted if they could have afforded good attorneys....

Cavalleria rusticana is the short opera that has all the elements of a grand opera compressed into a single highly dramatic time span....

A dozen tumultuous years after the dramatic events at the Paris Opera House Raoul, Comte de Chagny is still haunted by the mysterious Opera Ghost - the creature of legend who held staff at the Opera House under his thrall, kidnapped Raoul’s lover, and murdered his brother....

For over two decades Charles Long thrilled opera audiences, performing at some of America's and the world's most famous venues, and singing alongside some of its greatest stars....

A Gothic mystery set in London during the early 20th century Explore a tantalizing tale that intricately weaves the thrills of young love with the ...

When a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa's two lives collide - and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny....

More than any other composer, Franz Joseph Haydn deserves to be called the father of music's "Classical" style....