The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera
Author(s): Rupert Christiansen
This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Ades and George Benjamin. Whether you are a first-timer at La Boheme or a seasoned Wagnerian, every opera-goer can benefit from a little background information, and this book aims to provide just that. Accessible and easy-to-use, it contains entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.
Product Information
An expertly-written guide that is also extremely readable and accessible.
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber
- : Faber & Faber
- : 0.248
- : 30 April 2014
- : 178mm X 111mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : 448
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : Rupert Christiansen