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Staging and Dramaturgy

The present series aims to address several facets of the artistic expression of a live performance. It will include monographs and miscellaneous volumes on opera staging and dramaturgy, as well as a critical edition of stage-booklets. Volumes on performing arts (including dance, musical theatre, mime, puppetry, performance arts) and case studies or researches on costumes, stage lighting and sound, new technology, designers, conductors and directors will be also considered.

Performing Arts and Technical Issues

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2021 (Staging and Dramaturgy: Opera and the Performing Arts, 4), pp. xiv+446, ISBN 978-2-503-59739-3. Contents The present volume has...

Michela Niccolai. Giacomo Puccini et Albert Carré: «Madame Butterfly» à Paris

Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 (Staging and Dramaturgy: Opera and the Performing Arts, 1), pp. XVIII+314, ISBN: 978-2-503-54761-9. Contents Winner of the 'Gouden Label' Award 2014 Following the failure...

Michela Niccolai, Debussy’s «Pelléas et Mélisande»: The Staging by Albert Carré

English Translation by Lesley Wright, Turnhout, Brepols, pp. xviii+254, 2017 (Staging and Dramaturgy: Opera and the Performing Arts, 3), ISBN: 9782503574622. Contents Among the various, extant...

Staging Verdi and Wagner

edited by Naomi Matsumoto, Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Staging and Dramaturgy: Opera and the Performing Arts, 2), pp. xx+384, ISBN 978-2-503-56482-1. Contents How an operatic work is...

Forthcoming Publications

The Composer-Conductor Figure between the 19th and 20th Centuries

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae, 61). Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many great musicians served as both composers and conductors,...

In Search of Morton Feldman. A Portrait of the Composer at 100

edited by Benjamin R. Levy, Turhout, Brepols, 2026 (Contemporary Composers, 8). There is something inscrutable about Morton Feldman. His music resists analysis, first through...

Twentieth-Century Music Criticism and Racial Discourses

edited by Roberto Illiano, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Music, Criticism & Politics, 14). In recent decades, the relationship between music and criticism has been a key...

New Perspectives on the 19th-Century Cello

edited by George Kennaway, Turnhout, Brepols, 2026 (Speculum Musicae) This book offers a rich variety of approaches to the nineteenth-century cello and cellists. Its range...

New Releases

Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era

edited by Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Speculum Musicae, 59), pp. xv+448+16 color ills., ISBN 978-2-503-62184-5. Contents The figurative arts — or the...

The Body in Musical Performance: Knowledge, Gesture, and Identity

edited by Marcello Mazzetti, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 2),pp. xx+276, ISBN 978-2-503-62192-0. Contents This volume offers a groundbreaking exploration of musical embodiment across time,...

Perspectives on the Music of György Kurtág: Performance, Language and Memory

Edited by Rachel Beckles Willson and Gergely Fazekas, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Contemporary Composers, 7), pp. xii+252, ISBN 978-2-503-61866-1.           Contents The present volume has been made possibile...

Embodied Musicology: Ways that Embodiment Shapes Performance and Reception

edited by Arnie Cox, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025 (Applied Music Studies, 1), ISBN 978-2-503-62191-3, pp. xvi+378. Contents For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine,...