Stanley Sadie / Laura Macy (eds.)

Grove Book of Operas

Herausgeber: Sadie, Stanley; Macy, Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, this text is a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Covering all operas in the current repertory along with some less-well-known early and very modern ones, this is an ideal volume for the general opera lover.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 782
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1420g
• ISBN-13: 9780195309072
• ISBN-10: 0195309073
• Artikelnr.: 21118806

Inhaltsangabe

* Introductory essay from scholar and dramaturge David Levin surveys
contemporary trends in opera performance and their intellectual and
cultural contexts
* Each entry includes a full plot synopsis, cast list, information
about the first production and a discussion of the opera's history
* Includes recent operas such as The Death of Klinghoffer^, Handmaid's
Tale, and Little Women, which have received considerable press
attention and, in some instances, have generated controversy
* Each of the entries is written by a top expert on the opera or
composer
* Clearly and engagingly written, with invaluable tools such as a
glossary and several indices (role names; arias and ensembles; and
operas by composer)