Defining Opera

The series is an initiative that focuses on critical and analytic issues surrounding opera of any period but excludes histories of opera as well as biographies of composers, singers, conductors, producers and so forth. It may also include modern polemical writing. It is edited by Christopher Wintle, an Emeritus of King's College London, who has written extensively on opera since Mozart, who for many years reviewed opera for the Times Literary Supplement and who has contributed regularly to the programmes of The Royal Opera; and it is typeset by Julian Littlewood, author of the monograph The Variations of Johannes Brahms.