Opera

A humorous look at arranged marriages, betrayals and affairs....

Wisteria Tearoom owner Ellen Rosings coaxes Detective Tony Aragón to go with her to the Santa Fe Opera, but the magnificent performance of Tosca ends in disaster....

Twenty years after the Phantom of the Opera has vacated the Paris Opera House, his past catches up with him. The evil Sultana of Mazenderan - whom the Phantom last saw as a 10-year-old girl - wants the Phantom to commit foul deeds for her (again) and will not take no for an answer....

Dramatic Arts degree in hand, Janeesia aims for Hollywood stardom. In the meantime, she sells heating and cooling equipment inspections by phone to pay the bills. To get more acting experience, she auditions for every part that opens up....

Harry Walsh is a young man on the make. He intends to become a famous singer, little knowing what dramas this will lead him through....

The remarkable true story of acclaimed opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick, who received not one but two double lung transplants....

Three Sherlock Holmes mysteries in one book. Set in the late 19th century, no fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes....

Two-and-a-half centuries after his death, the complex life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach continues to fascinate. Marschall brings Bach's enduring music and influence to the postmodern world and to all who would draw inspiration from his relentless pursuit of divinely ordained creativity....

Meet Jaxx, a happy-go-lucky New York City dog, whose life is suddenly turned topsy-turvy when he gets lost during a blizzard....

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

Who is the mysterious ghost who titilates and terrifies the staff, performers, and patrons of the Paris Opera House? Accompany him to his dark underground chamber of horrors...if you dare....

New York City native and gifted pianist George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway, where he fashioned his own brand of American music....

A master violinist trained in Vienna, Rebekah Carrington manages to wheedle her way into an audition with the maestro at the newly formed Nashville Philharmonic....

Rune, whose voice has been compared to that of an angel, has a mysterious affliction linked to her talent that leaves her sick and drained at the end of every performance....

A fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years by one of the world's leading Mozart scholars."I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790....

When Miranda Barnes first sees the sleepy town of St. Yvette, Louisiana, with its moss-draped trees, above-ground cemeteries, and her grandfather’s creepy home, she realizes that life as she knew it is officially over. Almost immediately, there seems to be something cloying at her....

The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic novel, combining romance, horror, mystery, and tragedy....

Dean Keith Simonton examines the key factors in creative genius and finds that they are more than a little contradictory. Simonton, who has studied creativity and genius for more than four decades, draws on both scientific research and stories from the lives of famous creative geniuses....

Ever wondered how great singers in musicals and opera get (and keep) the job? They have a vocal coach. Expert vocal coach Jeremy Fisher lifts the lid on what goes on in a voice studio....

The book draws on his numerous and geographically diverse experiences. It contrasts opera-going in different, predominantly European, countries and over time, from the 1960s to the present day....