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The New Penguin Opera Guide (Penguin Reference Books S.)

The New Penguin Opera Guide (Penguin Reference Books S.)

by Amanda Holden (Editor)

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

This is a completely updated and revised edition of the Viking Opera Guide , with many new entries and a guide to the best opera recordings. It brings together an extraordinary range of material and information, embracing all forms of opera from its beginnings through to the 21st century, covering composers, individual operas and operatic history. Over 100 distinguished contributors have written on more than 800 composers and examined 1500 operas in detail.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 1170
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 25 Sep 2003
ISBN 10: 0140514759
ISBN 13: 9780140514759

Author Bio
Amanda Holden studied music at Oxford with Egon Wellesz and has taught at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her opera translations, many of them commissioned by the English National Opera, are performed throughout the English speaking world. She received the Olivier award for outstanding achievement in opera in 2001 - along with Mark Anthony Turnage, the composer - for her libretto for The Silver Tassie. She edited The Viking Opera Guide (1993). Amanda Holden lives in London, N5.