Pocket Companion to Opera

by JohnAllison (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.25

  The Pocket Companion to Opera is the ideal reference for every lover of opera. Portable, informative and easy to use, it contains details of everything from repertoire standards to rarely seen delights - all organised alphabetically by title. For each opera there is a thorough and vivid synopsis, as well as a list of the chief characters with their voice parts. Details of composer, librettist and first performance are given, as well as information on the history of the piece and its place in the context of the composer's work. Ideal for anyone who takes pleasure from live performances or from recordings, this invaluable companion will greatly enhance your enjoyment of the world of opera. - Highly portable, this unique volume can be taken along to every performance. - Features more than 150 operas, from the world's favourites to rarely performed gems - Includes informative synopses that reveal the story, mood and style of each piece, scene by scene

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.20

  Don't go to the opera without it! Portable, informative, and easy to use, this pocket companion to 150 masterpieces contains both the repertoire standards (Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Don Giovanni, and La Boh'me) and more unusual fare-like Rimsky Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage, and Kurt Weill's Street Scene. Entries range from Handel's Agrippina to Mozart's magical Die Zauberflte (The Magic Flute), and each one includes information on the composer and librettist; a description of the work's premiere; a list of principal characters; and synopses that reveal the mood and style of each piece, scene by scene. Among the operas covered are: Beethoven's Fidelio, Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Philip Glass's Akhnaten, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and Verdi's La Traviata.