100 Great Operas And Their Stories: Act-By-Act Synopses - Softcover

Simon, Henry W.

 
9780385054485: 100 Great Operas And Their Stories: Act-By-Act Synopses
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0385054483 ISBN 13: 9780385054485
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989

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An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written.
 
From La Traviata to Aïda, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world’s best-loved operas, told in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. Written by noted opera authority Henry W. Simon, this distinctive reference book contains act-by-act descriptions of 100 operatic works ranging from the historic early seventeenth century masterpieces of Monteverdi to the modern classics of Gian-Carlo Menotti.
 
In addition to highlighting the most important aspects of each opera, the author discusses the main characters, the famous turnings of plot, and the most significant arias. Here, too, is a wealth of anecdotes concerning literary background, past performances and stars, and production problems of the great operas.

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Henry W. Simon (1901–70) was an author, editor, educator, and music critic and served as chairman of the Music Critics Circle of New York. His other books include the Pocket Treasury of Great Operas and The Victor Book of the Opera(revised edition).

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An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and afficionados, this volume contains act-by-act descriptions of operatic works ranging from the early seventeenth century masterworks of Monteverdi and Purcell to the modern classics of Menotti and Britten. Written in a lively anecdotal style, entries include character descriptions, historical background, and much more.

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0385054483
ISBN 13 
9780385054485
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
560
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