This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the 'long nineteenth century', giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and, the operas of Richard Strauss and Janacek. The essays reflect diverse methods, ranging from stylistic, philological, and historical approaches to those rooted in hermeneutics, critical theory, and post-modernist inquiry.