The Wordsworth Book of Opera - Couverture souple

Jacobs, Arthur; Sadie, Stanley

 
9781853263705: The Wordsworth Book of Opera

Synopsis

This work is a concise and comprehensive guide to the repertoire of opera. It contains synopses of 83 major operas by 41 composers from Monteverdi and Purcell through Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Debussy and Janacek to Alban Berg, Tippett and Britten.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This concise and comprehensive guide is designed to meet the needs of today's opera lover. It contains synopses of eighty-three major operas by forty-one composers from Monterverdi and Purcell, through Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Debussy and Janacek, to Alban Berg, Tippett and Britten. As the authors remark in the introduction, opera is a strange, complex and fascinating art, and its increasing popularity means that more and more people are exploring its subtleties and beauty. In The Wordsworth Book of Opera, the lively accounts of the plots and the characters, together with the musical examples, make it the ideal hand-book for the newcomer to opera and to the enthusiast alike.

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9780330268431: The Pan Book of Opera

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0330268430 ISBN 13 :  9780330268431
Editeur : Pan Books, 1984
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