The New Penguin Opera Guide (Penguin Reference Books)

By Amanda Holden

Book Overview

The New Pengiun Opera Guide is a fully revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive single-volume opera encyclopaedia ever published. In the course of hundreds of meticulously researched articles, it explores the complete operas of figures as diverse as Bellini and Britten, Handel and Hindemith, Massenet and Monteverdi, Rameau and Rossini, Weber and Weill; offers fresh insights into such perennial favourites as Mozart, Verdi and Wagner; and examines stage works by composers not primarily remembered for their operas - Schumann, Faure and Schoenberg among them. It also brings the reader right up to date with the latest operas by contemporary composers worldwide, including Ades, Carter, Holliger, Macmillan, Picker, Reich, Saariaho and Tan Dun. In all it discusses nearly 850 composers and looks in detail at around 2,000 works.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140293124
• ISBN13: 9780140293128
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 1170 Pages
• Weight: 4.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 2.0" x 7.3"