The New Grove Dictionary of Opera [4 volume set]

Stanley Sadie (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0333734327 / ISBN 13: 9780333734322

Published by Macmillan Press ; Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. [distributor], London, New York, 1998

About this Item

4 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm. Issued in a worn slip case. Contents: More than 11,000 articles, all fully cross-referenced, including: - over 1,750 articles on operas - over 2,500 articles on singers and conductors - over 3,000 articles on composers - more than 400 articles on cities - articles covering librettists, producers, directors and designers; opera houses; patrons and impresarios; history and terminology of opera - 800 illustrations - indices of role names and of first lines of arias and ensembles.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera [4 volume set]
• Publisher: Macmillan Press ; Grove's Dictionaries of Music Inc. [distributor], London, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333734327
• ISBN 13: 9780333734322
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ethnomusicology

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Synopsis

Although not for every opera lover (or every opera lover's budget), this massive four-volume set--each volume coming in at around 1,300 pages--is indispensable for the opera educator, writer, or major fanatic. While in any encyclopedia the quality of writing and the critical viewpoint must of necessity be somewhat varied, the standards in the Grove series of reference works are always high and the level of usefulness enormous. Almost any opera that debuted before 1992 is to be found within these pages, making it especially useful in this age of obscure revivals; most singers of any note who had established careers before that date are also included. Although somewhat Anglocentric in its inclusions, this remains an invaluable reference work.