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Book Description

Publication Date: 2 Sep 2004

A handy, readable and easy-to-use opera guide by leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen, containing entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.

Features include:

- snapshot plot summaries

- background information on each opera

- straightforward pointers to help your appreciation of the music and production

- recommended recordings (CD, video and DVD)

- a brief overview of the history of opera

'Highly recommended.' Sunday Telegraph

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A handy, readable and easy-to-use opera guide by leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen, containing entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.

Features include:

- snapshot plot summaries

- background information on each opera

- straightforward pointers to help your appreciation of the music and production

- recommended recordings (CD, video and DVD)

- a brief overview of the history of opera

'Highly recommended.' Sunday Telegraph

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Product details

Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (2 Sep 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571224598
ISBN-13: 978-0571224593
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 17.8 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 110,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #13 in Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Music > Styles > Classical Music > Opera > Scores, Songbooks & Lyrics

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'Admirable for its reader-friendly design and unpatronising tone.' -- Independent on Sunday

'Highly recommended.' -- Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at King's College, Cambridge. After further study as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, he has written several books including Prima Donna, Romantic Affinities, Paris Babylon, The Visitors and Arthur Hugh Clough. In 1997, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.He is currently opera critic of the Daily Telegraph and a member of the editorial board of Opera magazine. He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including The Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Harpers & Queen, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "pocket" is the key word 26 Feb 2012

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This is inexpensive and covers lots of different operas but very superficially. As a KIndle ebook, it has its uses for me but I don't think I would have bought the print version.

I'm still looking for the "right" opera guide book for me, small enough to carry around (like this one) but with cast lists, act-by-act, scene-by-scene synopses and some musical analysis.

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