Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
593
Language
English
Published
Aug 29, 2006
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN-10
0141016825
ISBN-13
9780141016825
Description
This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today - ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.