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The Rough Guide to Opera

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The "Rough Guide to Opera" is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, animating the main events of their careers and revealing their social and musical context, and entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas both famous and neglected and comprehensive reviews of over a thousand CD's from recent digital releases to the best historical recordings. From historical figures like Caruso to contemporary stars like Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming and Daniel Barenboim, discover the finest singers and conductors on record. Superb photographs, drawings, and CD cover images make this title an Opera-lover's essential.

Author Biography

Matthew Boyden is an author and journalist specialising in classical music and opera. As well as writing The Rough Guide to Opera, Matthew is a contributor to The Rough Guide to Classical Music
Release date Australia
June 28th, 2007
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Edition
4th Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Imprint
Rough Guides
Pages
768
Publisher
Rough Guides Ltd
Dimensions
169x236x36
ISBN-13
9781843535386
Product ID
1713319

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