This comprehensive reference to opera is arranged in alphabetical order and listed in the original languages of the titles. Each entry provides an outline of the plot, discussion of the music, performance details, information on available English translations and a list of recommended recordings.
This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today - ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.
"The New Pengiun Opera Guide" is a fully revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive single-volume opera encyclopaedia ever published. In the course of hundreds of meticulously researched articles, it explores the complete operas of figures as diverse as Bellini and Britten, Handel and Hindemith, Massenet and Monteverdi, Rameau and ...
This reference work draws on "The Viking Opera Guide" (which covers over 1500 operas) to present the major composers and works of four centuries of opera's history, from Peri's "Dafne" ("the first opera") through Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Wagner, to the most acclaimed composers of today. An outline of the musical career of ...
This wonderful collection features 30 songs, grouped into the categories Portraits, Movies, Love Lost, Love Found, Lust, and Philosophy. Includes her hits: The Rose * Errol Flynn * Ship in a Bottle * Dreaming * The Portrait * and more, plus an introduction by Stephen Holden of the New York Times, and Amanda's thoughts on each song.
With music by Mozart this picture book offers an interpretation of the opera first performed in Vienna in 1791. Extracts from Mozart's music are presented in arrangements for easy piano or keyboard, suitable for players of all ages.
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