Publication Schedule


Along with their importance for music theatre history, the decisive criterion for the choice of works to be edited was the editorial issues each presented. Accordingly, the compositions have been grouped into modules, whose titles indicate the categories dealt with throughout the edition.

Musical and Textual Parody


Transfer and Transformation
  • Louis Spohr, Joseph Karl Bernard: Faust (1816/1852) · Ed. Tina Köth-Kley · BA 8820


Performance Practice and Interpretation
  • Agostino Steffani, Ortensio Mauro: Henrico Leone (1689) · Ed. Matteo Giuggioli, Christin Seidenberg; Text Edition: Janette Seuffert · BA 8821
  • Carl Zeller, Moritz West, Ludwig Held: Der Vogelhändler (1891) · Ed. Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch · BA 8818


Speaking and Singing


Beyond Opera
  • Adolphe Adam, Théophile Gautier, Jules Henri de Saint-Georges, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot: Giselle ou les Willis (1842) · Ed. Marian Smith / Doug Fullington · BA 8819