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Book Review: Sherrill Milnes - American Aria

Sherrill Milnes’s autobiography, 'American Aria', has now been updated for a paperback edition. Read the review.

Book Review: Opera Lover’s Cookbook

Joel Kasow reviews Francine Segan and the Metropolitan Opera Guild's guide to opera-themed parties, menus and recipes.

Monteverdi and Wagner: Two Operatic Giants

Book reviews of Thomas May's 'Decoding Wagner: An Invitation to his World of Music Drama' and Mark Ringer's 'Opera’s First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi'.

Book Review: First Nights at the Opera

Thomas Kelly takes us behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five of the most influential operas in European opera.

Opera on Screen: A Guide to More Than 100 Years of Opera Films, Videos, and DVDs

There have already been books about opera and cinema and/or television, but Ken Wlaschin's Encyclopedia is the reference work for which we have been waiting.

Book Review: Opera Lover's Companion Charles Osborne: Opera Lover's Companion

Osborne's "Opera Lover's Companion" suffers from non-existent fact-checking, bizarre judgments, misinformation too much material pillaged from the author's earlier traversals of the operatic repertoire.

"The Autobiography of Maria Callas: a Novel" by Alma Bond

Fictional autobiography by retired psychoanalyst Alma Bond pulls no punches, and lets it all hang out.