A pocket guide to opera / Rupert Christiansen.
| Author/creator | Christiansen, Rupert |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Faber, 2002. |
| Description | x, 394 pages ; 18 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Baroque and classical opera. Claudio Monteverdi ; Francesco Cavalli ; George Frideric Handel ; Christoph Willibald von Gluck ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- German opera. Ludwig van Beethoven ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Richard Wagner ; Engelbert Humperdinck ; Richard Strauss ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Alan Berg ; Kurt Weill ; Hans Werner Henze -- Italian opera. Gioachino Rossini ; Gaetano Donizetti ; Vincenzo Bellini ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Pietro Mascagni ; Ruggero Leoncavallo ; Umberto Giordano ; Giacomo Puccini -- French opera. Hector Berlioz ; Charles Gounod ; Ambroise Thomas ; Georges Bizet ; Camille Saint-Saens ; Jacques Offenbach ; Jules Massenet ; Claude Debussy ; Maurice Ravel ; Francis Poulenc -- Operetta. Jacques Offenbach ; Johann Strauss ; Arthur Sullivan ; Franz Lehar -- English opera. Henry Purcell ; Benjamin Britten ; Michael Tippett ; Harrison Birtwistle -- Slavic opera. Modest Mussorgsky ; Bedrich Smetana ; Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Antonin Dvorak ; Leos Janacek ; Bela Bartok ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Sergei Prokofiev ; Igor Stravinsky -- American opera. George Gershwin ; Gian Carlo Menotti ; Leonard Bernstein ; Carlisle Floyd ; Stephen Sondheim ; John Adams. |
| Abstract | An overview of opera's history and key works from Monteverdi to John Adams, with works grouped by period and geography, a chapter on operetta, short synopses, historical context, comments on various producers' and directors' stagings, and suggested audio and video recordings. |
| ISBN | 0571209009 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML102.O6 C37 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |