“…His legacy also brought forth the first operas of the Americas, as posthumous revivals of the operatic genres he nurtured appeared in the Americas less than 15 years after his death. In this book, Louise K. Stein follows the trajectory of this first operatic producer to have shaped opera in two different worlds, Europe and the Americas, and in doing so, advances our historical understanding of 17th and early 18th-century opera and cultural encounter…”