| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 494 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes discographies. |
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Includes 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 -- Tannhäuser : opera and ideas -- Die Walküre : epic opera -- Elektra : psychological opera -- Opera and you : a lifelong love affair -- Appendixes. |
| Subject |
Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Operas -- Analysis, appreciation. |
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Opera.
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Opera. |
| Genre/Form |
Directories.
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Directories.
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| ISBN |
0786880252 : $14.95 ($18.95 Can.) |
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9780786880256 |
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