The Rough Guide to Opera

The Rough Guide to Opera is a handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. Features include: lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, detailing the main events of their careers and revealing their social and musical context; entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas, both the famous and neglected, each with a clear synopsis and a lively essay; CD reviews, covering the latest digital recordings as well as dozens of classic historical sets; and a who's who of the finest singers and conductors on record, from historical figures like Caruso, Callas and Toscanini to present-day stars like Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming and Daniel Barenboim.

• Author
• Matthew Boyden, Joe Staines

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 736

• Publisher
• Rough Guides

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-85828-749-2

• EAN
• 9781858287492

• Genres
• music, reference

• Release date
• 2002