Opera
The Rough Guide
2nd Edition
Published on 28. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
736 pages
978-1-85828-456-9 (ISBN)
Description
This guide to opera has biographies of 150 composers, descriptions of hundreds of operas, reviews of CDs, a who's who of the recorded opera singers, from the very prominent to the more obscure, and a directory of opera houses across the world.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
APA Publications
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1039 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85828-456-9 (9781858284569)
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Content
The birth of opera - Monteverdi to Purcell; Baroque opera - Vivaldi to Handel; the reformation of opera - Gluck to Mozart; the age of romanticism; Verdi, Wagner and their contemporaries; opera in transition - the generation of Puccini, Massenet and Debussy; the era of modernism; opera since World War II.