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Opera: The Great Artists, Composers, and Their Masterworks

Opera: The Great Artists, Composers, and Their Masterworks

by JoyceBourne (Foreword)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

This invaluable reference book explores the background to 400 years of opera the composers, the singers, plus the buildings and festivals that have developed to showcase them. The development of opera is explored and set in its political and social context. At the heart of this book are concise biographies of major composers, accompanied by portraits and illustrations relating to their works, together with recommended recordings (both historical and contemporary).

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 14 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 184533275X
ISBN 13: 9781845332754
Book Overview: Recommended recordings - historical and contemporary - included for key singers. Internationally relevant with composers from all over the world including Armenia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Germany, England, France, Austria, Russia, and the United States. Traditional opera audience but also appealing to the younger age group which is now one of the fastest growing areas (see below for statistics). Companion volume to Classical Music (Mitchell Beazley 2005). Opera is fastest growing area of performing arts after film.

Media Reviews
Opera attendance has been rising steadily since 1982. The US opera audience grew by 35% between 1982 and 1992. This trend continued through 2002 when the opera audience grew by an additional 8.2% (the largest increase of all performing arts disciplines) Source: National Endowment for the Arts.
Author Bio
Born in Hull, Yorkshire, Joyce Bourne has lived in Manchester since 1952. Married to the critic and writer Michael Kennedy, she has for over 25 years, acted as his researcher, typist and, on the Oxford Dictionary of Music, as his associate editor. She has a lifelong interest in music generally and opera in particular. She is the author of Whos Who in Opera, which was published by Oxford University Press in 1998 and analyses 2,500 roles from 280 operas. From 1958 until her retirement in 1990 she practised as an anaesthetist and general practitioner. Her other interests include photography, embroidery, entertaining, reading, and cricket.