The Rough Guide to Opera
3rd Edition
Published on 27. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-1-85828-749-2 (ISBN)
Description
"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.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
APA Publications
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
b&w photos, glossary, index
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1046 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85828-749-2 (9781858287492)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
10/1999
2nd Edition
Rough Guides
€41.03
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Persons
Matthew Boyden is one of Britain's most hard-hitting music writers. He also makes regular appearances on television and radio.
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; directory of singers; directory of conductors. (Part contents).