The companion volume, and the more interesting one: the Lord Chamberlain’s refusal to allow scripture on the stage and what composers did about it, the transmigrations of Un Ballo in Maschera, how composers recycle their own music — then Samson, Hérodiade, Salome, Parsifal and others.
Krehbiel’s second opera volume, with the censorship stories. Download the free EPUB.