The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera

By: Holden, Amanda

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141016825
• ISBN13: 9780141016825
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 593 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher