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- Media: CD-ROM
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- 600 opera extracts and 500 scores
- 4 hours of music chosen from 100 reference recordings
- 450 photographs of stage productions, composers, singers, conductors and theaters
- Video extracts of Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland and other legends
- Learn of the greatest operas, from Monteverdi's to those of contemporary composers
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The extraordinary thing about The Great Operas is the amount of material that the producers have managed to cram on to one CD-ROM. The figures on the box are impressive enough, but once inside you have to suspend disbelief and prepare for a long wallow in an operatic goldmine.
The work is in six sections: the operas, the composers, the great interpreters, the world's top-25 opera houses, a history and a glossary. Of course it's not comprehensive, some of the information is a little outdated and the sound quality is not wonderful, but this is a tremendous introduction to the world of opera. One impressive feature is that unlike many works aimed at a wide audience it does not shirk the 20th century, offering extracts of 20 of the century's great operas.
Artist biographies have audio excerpts, complete with the score, and as a bonus there are five marvellous video clips, including Callas, Sutherland and Pavarotti--all in black and white, but well worth including. The history section has direct links to audio examples and even a few seconds provide a flavour of the work which no printed volume could ever hope to achieve. --Keith Clarke
Manufacturer's Description
Discover the world of opera through 100 works illustrated with photographs, videos and interpretations by the greatest artists of this century. Arturo Toscanini, Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Georg Solti, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Joan Sutherland, Régine Crespin, Christa Ludwig, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo are just some of the legendary figures who will delight and amaze you.
This software is a stirring invitation to a sound and sight voyage into this multifaceted universe: the 100 greatest operas, their composers and interpreters and 25 great theatres throughout the world--showcases that have made these operas live more than four centuries--as well as a history of opera and a musical glossary.
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