Daniel Snowman: writer, lecturer, broadcaster

Daniel Snowman Bibliography

The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera

Alantic Books, 2009; paperback edition, 2010; Italian edition (Il Palco d'oro) Elliot Edizioni, 2010

Hallelujah! An informal history of the London Philharmonic Choir

London Philharmonic Choir, 2007

Historians

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

The Hitler Emigrés: The Cultural impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism

Chatto and Windus, 2002; Pimlico paperback 2003

PastMasters: The Best of 'History Today' (ed)

Sutton: 2001

Fins de Siècle (with Asa Briggs)

Yale University press, 1996

Plácido Domingo's Tales From the Opera

BBC Books, 1994; Amadeus Press, USA, 1995

Pole Positions: The Polar Regions and the Future of the Planet

Hodder & Stoughton, 1993; Random House, Canada, 1993; Lubbe, 1994

Beyond the Tunnel of History: the 1989 BBC Reith Lectures (with Jacques Darras)

Macmillan (UK) and the University of Michigan Press, USA, 1990

The World of Plácido Domingo

The Bodley Head and McGraw-Hill, 1985; Arrow paperback 1986; Die Welt des Plácido Domingo, Schweizer Verlagshaus, 1986; new edition Domingo, 1992; Schott edition 1994; El Mundo de Plácido Domingo, Versal, Barcelona, 1986; Japanese edition, 1988; Hungarian edition, 1989

The Amadeus Quartet: The Men and the Music

Robson Books, 1981; Le Quattuor Amadeus, Buchet/Chastel, 1981

If I Had Been ... Ten Historical Fantasies (ed)

Robson Books, 1979

Kissing Cousins: An Interpretation of British and American Culture, 1945-1975

Temple Smith, 1977; published in USA as Britain and America: An Interpretation of their Culture, New York University Press/Harper and Row, 1977; adapted and translated for use in Japan as English-language text, Kinseido Ltd, Tokyo

Eleanor Roosevelt

Edito-Service, 1970; English and French language editions

America Since 1920

Harper and Row, 1968, and by Batsford, 1968 as USA: The Twenties to Vietnam. Republished in revised updated edition as America Since 1920 by Heinemann Educational Books, 1978, 1980, 1984

Chapters In

Thomas Armstrong: A Celebration by his Friends

Thames Publishing, 1998

Introduction to American Studies, ed: Malcolm Bradbury & Howard Temperley

Longman, 1981; new editions 1989 and 1998

The American Destiny: A Bicentennial History of the United States, ed: Henry S. Commager

Orbis/Danbury Press, 1976

Since 1945: Aspects of Contemporary World History, ed: J. L. Henderson

Methuen, 1966 & 1971

The British General Election of 1966, by David Butler and Anthony King

Macmillan, 1966

Recent features and review articles have included

  • Literary Review
    • July 2010: 'From the Pulpit', arguing for the integration of the arts and mainstream historiography
    • August 2010: Review of Norman Lebrecht, Why Mahler?
    • December 2010:Review of Roger Nichols, Ravel
    • April 2011: Review of Nicholas Fox Weber, The Bauhaus Group
    • July 2011: Review of Jens Malte Fischer, Mahler and Raymond Holden, Richard Strauss
    • October 2011: Review of David Coke and Alan Borg, Vauxhall Gardens
    • November 2011: Review of Simon Goldhill, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
       
  • History Today
    • January 2010: Feature article examining the history of opera in the USA
    • November 2010: Review of Tim Blanning, The Romantic Revolution
    • February 2011: Feature outlining changes in the historiography of the arts since 1950
       
  • Opera
    • November 2009: feature arguing the case for opera history in its broadest historical context
    • June 2010: Review of Nicholas Vazsonyi, Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand
    • October 2010: Review of Tosca in Savonlinna Opera Festival
    • January 2011: 'Viva VERDI!': article de-mythologising the supposed centrality of Verdi during the Risorgimento
    • February 2011: Opera in the Third Reich: review of Gundula Kreuzer, Verdi and the Germans and Erik Levi, Mozart and the Nazis
    • May 2011: Review of Laurence Dreyfus, Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
    • December 2011: Review of 2011 Torre del Lago Puccini Festival; and of Peter Conrad, Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
       

Articles published in

BBC History Magazine, BBC Music Magazine, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, Economist, English Historical Review, Gramophone, Guardian, Historical Research, Historically Speaking, History Today, Homes & Gardens, Independent, Jewish Chronicle, Journal of American Studies, Listener, Literary Review, Living History, Music and Musicians, Musical Times, New Society, New Statesman, Opera, Opera Now, Political Studies, Radio Times, Standard, Sunday Times, Times, Times Literary & Higher Education Supplements, Tribune