Overview

The Rough Guide to Opera is a handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. Features include: lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, detailing the main events of their careers and revealing their social and musical context; entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas, both the famous and neglected, each with a clear synopsis and a lively essay; CD reviews, covering the latest digital recordings as well as dozens of classic historical sets; and a who's who of the finest singers and conductors on record, from historical figures like Caruso, Callas and Toscanini to present-day stars like Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming and Daniel Barenboim.

ISBN-13

9781858287492

ISBN-10

1858287499

Weight

2.31 Pounds

Dimensions

6.60 x 1.33 x 9.25 In

List Price

$25.95

Edition

3rd Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

752 pages

Publisher

Rough Guides

Published On

2002-06-01



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