Redigerer Opera (avsnitt)

== Litteratur ==

* ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), 5,448 pages, is the best, and by far the largest, general reference in the English language. <nowiki>ISBN 0-333-73432-7</nowiki>, 1-56159-228-5
* ''The Viking Opera Guide'', edited by Amanda Holden (1994), 1,328 pages, <nowiki>ISBN 0-670-81292-7</nowiki>
* ''The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera'', ed. Roger Parker (1994)
* ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, <nowiki>ISBN 0-19-869164-5</nowiki>
* ''Opera, the Rough Guide'', by Matthew Boyden et al. (1997), 672 pages, <nowiki>ISBN 1-85828-138-5</nowiki>
* ''Opera: A Concise History'', by Leslie Orrey and Rodney Milnes, World of Art, Thames & Hudson
* Abbate, Carolyn; Parker, Roger (2012). ''A History of Opera''. New York: W W Norton. ISBN <bdi>978-0-393-05721-8</bdi>.
* DiGaetani, John Louis: ''An Invitation to the Opera'', Anchor Books, 1986/91. <nowiki>ISBN 0-385-26339-2</nowiki>.
* Dorschel, Andreas, 'The Paradox of Opera', ''The Cambridge Quarterly'' 30 (2001), no. 4, pp. 283–306. ISSN 0008-199X (print). ISSN 1471-6836 (electronic). Discusses the aesthetics of opera.
* Silke Leopold, "The Idea of National Opera, c. 1800", ''United and Diversity in European Culture c. 1800'', ed. Tim Blanning and Hagen Schulze (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 19–34.
* MacMurray, Jessica M. and Allison Brewster Franzetti: ''The Book of 101 Opera Librettos: Complete Original Language Texts with English Translations'', Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1996. <nowiki>ISBN 978-1-884822-79-7</nowiki>
* Howard Mayer Brown, "Opera", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. 2001. Oxford University Press
* Rous, Samuel Holland (1919). ''The Victrola Book of the Opera. Stories of The Operas with Illustrations...''. Camden, New Jersey: Victor Talking Machine Company. View at Internet Archive.
* Simon, Henry W.: ''A Treasury of Grand Opera'', Simon and Schuster, New York, 1946.
* "Opera", Herbert Weinstock and Barbara Russano Hanning, ''Encyclopædia Britannica''