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.
A new, concise edition of the much-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide.
About the Author
Amanda Holden has written some 50 translations and texts for the opera stage, theatre, and concert hall, including the libretto for Mark Anthony Turnage's opera 'The Silver Tassie', for which she received an Olivier Award. For The New Penguin Opera Guide she assembled a team of 100 experts. She lives in London.
Reviews
Praise for The New Penguin Opera Guide: 'For range, breadth, enthusiasm and common sense, Amanda Holden's labour of love is already irreplaceable' Dennis Marks, Observer
Book Information
ISBN 9780141016825
Author Amanda Holden
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 415g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 26mm
A new, concise edition of the much-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide.
About the Author
Amanda Holden has written some 50 translations and texts for the opera stage, theatre, and concert hall, including the libretto for Mark Anthony Turnage's opera 'The Silver Tassie', for which she received an Olivier Award. For The New Penguin Opera Guide she assembled a team of 100 experts. She lives in London.
Reviews
Praise for The New Penguin Opera Guide: 'For range, breadth, enthusiasm and common sense, Amanda Holden's labour of love is already irreplaceable' Dennis Marks, Observer
Book Information
ISBN 9780141016825
Author Amanda Holden
Format Paperback
Page Count 608
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 415g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 26mm
