Opera: A Penguin Anthology

by StephenBrook (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

  This is a broadly based anthology on opera including accounts of famous first nights and performances, material culled from the numerous biographies and autobiographies and from some of the famous correspondents, for example Strauss and von Hoffman, or diaries like Cosima Wagner. Many novelists - like Tolstoy and Proust - have written about opera and opera houses have sprung up in the most unlikely places like Santa Fe, and the Amazon jungle.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

  A richly entertaining look at the sublimities and follies of the opera, both onstage and off. Gathering material from an impressively broad range of sources, the author provides the reader with sections on operatic history, practice, and issues, as well as regaling opera fans with amusing accounts of backstage antics. Anyone who has ever enjoyed an opera will relish these eyewitness recollections of opera's great singers, composers, conductors, and directors through three centures.