Description |
xvii, 494 pages ; 21 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes discography and videography (pages 405-414). |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-403) and index. |
Contents |
400 years of opera -- Becoming an opera cognoscente -- Going to the opera -- Discography for Opera 101 -- Rigoletto: learning your first opera -- Tosca: opera as drama -- Lucia di Lammermoor: drama expressed through music -- Il barbiere di Siviglia: opera and comedy -- Don Giovanni: Classical opera -- Les contes d'Hoffmann: French opera -- Eugene Onegin: romantic opera -- Don Carlo: grand opera -- Tannhauser: opera and ideas -- Die walkure: epic opera -- Elektra: psychological opera -- Opera and you: a lifelong love affair -- Appendixes. |
Subject |
Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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ISBN |
0786880252: $14.95 ($18.95 Can.) |
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