Stanley Sadie, Laura Macy

Grove Book of Operas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, The Grove Book of Operas brings together synopses and descriptions of over 250 leading operas, complemented by more than one hundred illustrations and halftones. Each succinct yet insightful entry is written by a leading authority on the opera and includes a full synopsis of the plot, a cast list, a note on the singers in the original production, information on the origins of the work and its literary and social background, and a brief comment on the work's place in operatic history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 165mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1164g
• ISBN-13: 9780195387117
• ISBN-10: 0195387112
• Artikelnr.: 25542175

Autorenporträt

Stanley Sadie served as President of the Royal Music Association and the International Musicological Society. He was appointed Commander of the British Empire in 1982. Laura Macy is an authority on the Italian madrigal, and has published and lectured on opera performance and the roles of women in music.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introductory essay from scholar and dramaturge David Levin surveys
contemporary trends in opera performance and their intellectual and
cultural contexts
* Each entry includes a full plot synopsis, cast list, information
about the first production and a discussion of the opera's history
* Includes recent operas such as The Death of Klinghoffer^, Handmaid's
Tale, and Little Women, which have received considerable press
attention and, in some instances, have generated controversy
* Each of the entries is written by a top expert on the opera or
composer
* Clearly and engagingly written, with invaluable tools such as a
glossary and several indices (role names; arias and ensembles; and
operas by composer)