Have you already listened to La Traviata 15 times? Does your playlist crave fresh tunes? Time to hook you into yet another new genre! We have 50 more books on music right this way. If you have a chance to see some Chinese opera, don’t miss it, but if you’re not culturally Chinese, definitely have a gander at this work first so that you have some context. There are a lot of opera books that focus on Chinese theater, but many of them are actually written and published only in Chinese. If you don’t read the language yourself, this work is a bit of a gem. In fact, BDSM has become a little bit of a trend in edgier opera houses recently. This book takes a great crack at examining how modern theater pros are stretching the boundaries of a “traditional” art form. Of all the opera books in print, this is probably the one you most want to have out on your coffee table when Aunt Hilda comes over to badger you about having no cultural taste.
