The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera (Penguin Reference)

Holden, Amanda

ISBN 10: 0141016825 / ISBN 13: 9780141016825

Published by Penguin, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera (Penguin Reference)
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141016825
• ISBN 13: 9780141016825
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 360 grams

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Synopsis

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.

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.