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The authors present a book featuring everything you need to know about opera. It includes over 160 operas by 66 composers from around the world, and spans 400 years of music drama from late-Renaissance Italy to the latest exciting work from contemporary names including Philip Glass and Thomas Ades."
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About the Author
Alan Riding is an opera devotee who as European Arts Correspondent for The New York Times has attended innumerable opera productions in theatres from London to Vienna, Berlin to Milan, Paris to New York.Leslie Dunton-Downer has written librettos for operas produced in Aspen, New York, Paris, Spoleto (Italy) and Moscow. She has collaborated with leading composers, conductors, singers and directors.They are co-authors of DK's Essential Shakespeare Handbook.
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"An illustrated, easy-to-use guide, with handy plot summaries" Publishing News 09/06/06
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- PublisherDorling Kindersley
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1405312793
- ISBN 13 9781405312790
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
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