Ticket to the Opera: Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, With Recommended Recordings - Hardcover

Goulding, Phil G.

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ISBN 10: 044990900X ISBN 13: 9780449909003

Verlag: Fawcett, 1996

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Book by Goulding Phil G

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Includes operatic history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore, and portraits of famous singers and their roles

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ed by music connoisseurs and high society, opera is in fact a wonderfully entertaining art form--a thrilling combination of magnificent music, high drama, gorgeous spectacle, and sheer theatrical magic. In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding, the author of Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1000 Greatest Works, finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all.
Ticket to the Opera offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's centerpiece is what Phil Goulding terms "the collection"--85 classics, among them Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, and Madama Butterfly, that have been packing the world's opera houses for years. This meticulously researched book also includes a fascinating chapter on American opera from Georg

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• Verlag: Fawcett
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 044990900X
• ISBN 13: 9780449909003
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 704