An active scholar, Laura Macy has published articles and presented papers on the Italian madrigal and Women in music. She has given public lectures and radio presentations on the madrigal, female composers and opera.

Comment and opinion enliven the entries, the print is clear and the illustrations finely reproduced... An inexhaustible mine of information, it is also an engrossingly good read.

• Editor's Preface ; Illustration Acknowledgements ; Opera Singers A-Z ; Index of singers by voice type ; Index of singers by opera role premieres

An active scholar, Laura Macy has published articles and presented papers on the Italian madrigal and Women in music. She has given public lectures and radio presentations on the madrigal, female composers and opera.

Comment and opinion enliven the entries, the print is clear and the illustrations finely reproduced... An inexhaustible mine of information, it is also an engrossingly good read.

• Editor's Preface ; Illustration Acknowledgements ; Opera Singers A-Z ; Index of singers by voice type ; Index of singers by opera role premieres

An active scholar, Laura Macy has published articles and presented papers on the Italian madrigal and Women in music. She has given public lectures and radio presentations on the madrigal, female composers and opera.

Comment and opinion enliven the entries, the print is clear and the illustrations finely reproduced... An inexhaustible mine of information, it is also an engrossingly good read.

• Editor's Preface ; Illustration Acknowledgements ; Opera Singers A-Z ; Index of singers by voice type ; Index of singers by opera role premieres