Dictionary of Opera and Operetta

Dictionary of Opera and Operetta PDF

Author: James Anderson

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9780747520948

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This is the second edition of this comprehensive one-volume work. Each entry has been revised and updated and 120 new opera entries, 250 new full-plot summaries, 75 new composers, and 55 new singers and conductors have been added to the book. An extensive new bibliography is also included.

Dictionary of Opera

Dictionary of Opera PDF

Author: James Anderson

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9780747538745

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This comprehensive guide to opera and operatta provides information at every level, for the general reader, the new enthusiast and the opera aficionado. This edition has been revised to bring the information up to date.

The Oxford Dictionary of Opera

The Oxford Dictionary of Opera PDF

Author: John Warrack

Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13:

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From Aachen, a city launching much young talent, to Zwischenspiel, the usual German term for intermezzo, this new reference contains some 4,500 entries, including 750 on opera composers (with bibliographies), 600 on individual operas, 900 biographies of singers, and 350 entries of specialist terms, along with hundreds covering directors, conductors, scenes, writers, critics. A pleasing 782 pages, lots of detail, covering all aspects of the historical development and present standing of opera; appropriate for virtually all libraries. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR