Opera
by Riding, Alan
"Addressing seven languages, this definitive visual guide explores 400 years of music drama, from late-Renaissance Italy to the modern day; presents synopses of 160 operas from around the world; and discusses the lives of composers, from Monteverdi to Adams."
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- Full title :Opera / Alan Riding & Leslie Dunton-Downer.
Summary
"Addressing seven languages, this definitive visual guide explores 400 years of music drama, from late-Renaissance Italy to the modern day; presents synopses of 160 operas from around the world; and discusses the lives of composers, from Monteverdi to Adams."
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- Publication Date:2006.
- Edition:1st American ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):DK
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
Http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006013290.html
The Physical Object
- Description:432 pages : : illustrations (principalement en couleur) ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780756622046, 0756622042
- oclc:on1135190775
- LC Classification:ML1700
- Dewey Decimal:782.1
Table of Contents
Introducing opera -- What is opera? -- Librettos and librettists -- Staging opera -- Opera houses and festivals -- Idols of opera -- Monteverdi to Mozart, c. 1600-1800 -- Italian opera, c. 1800-1925 -- Germanic opera, c. 1800-1950 -- French opera, c. 1790-1900 -- Russian opera, c. 1830-1960 -- Czech opera, c.1860-1940 -- Modern opera, c. 1900-
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