The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
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This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today - ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.
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- Title
- The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
- Author
- Amanda Holden
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0141016825
- ISBN 13
- 9780141016825
This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today - ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.
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About the Author
Amanda Holden has written some 50 translations and texts for the opera stage, theatre, and concert hall, including the libretto for Mark Anthony Turnage's opera 'The Silver Tassie', for which she received an Olivier Award. For The New Penguin Opera Guide she assembled a team of 100 experts. She lives in London.
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