The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Opera Edited by: Anthony R. DelDonna, Pierpaolo Polzonetti Bringing together leading international experts in the field if eighteenth-century opera, this Companion is a definitive reference resource which provides well-established knowledge, reflects recent thinking, and stimulates further individual research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera-goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.