Opera : a research and information guide

✍ Scribed by Guy A Marco

• Publisher: Garland Pub
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 655
• Series: Routledge Music Bibliographies
• Edition: 2 Sub
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles - over 2,000 more than did the first edition - of books, parts of books, articles, and dissertations in European languages, with full bibliographic descriptions and (except for dissertations) critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers, and about operatic life in forty-three countries."--BOOK JACKET. Read more...

Content: I Bibliographies II Dictionaries and Encyclopedias III Histories IV Editions and Excerpts V Libraries VI Opera Houses VII International Directories VIII Periodicals, Yearbooks and Series IX Biographies X Opera Plots XI Libretti and Librettists XII Production XIII Philosophy and Theory of Opera XIV Analysis XV Critics and Criticism XVI Opera Recordings and Discography XVII Composers and their Operas XVIII Countires IX Indexes
Abstract:

Covering over 320 composers and 43 countries, this book will be invaluable to opera scholars, researchers and serious listeners throughout the world. Read more...