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The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
Amanda Holden
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Description for The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Holden, Amanda. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC9; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 420.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
417 g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141016825
SKU
V9780141016825
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Ref
99-2
About Amanda Holden
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.
Reviews for The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
Praise for The New Penguin Opera Guide: 'For range, breadth, enthusiasm and common sense, Amanda Holden's labour of love is already irreplaceable' Dennis Marks, Observer