The New Penguin Opera Guide

Holden, Amanda

ISBN 10: 0140514759 / ISBN 13: 9780140514759

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2002

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This trade paperback edition of 'The New Penguin Opera Guide' is the most complete one-volume guide to opera ever produced. It embraces all forms of opera from its beginnings through to the present, covering composers, individual operas, operatic history and a guide to the best opera recordings. Over 100 distinguished contributors have written on more than 800 composers and examined 1500 operas in detail.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Amanda Holden studied music at Oxford with Egon Wellesz and has taught at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her opera translations, many of them commissioned by the English National Opera, are performed throughout the English speaking world. Shereceived the Olivier award for "outstanding achievement in opera" in 2001 - along with Mark Anthony Turnage, the composer - for her libretto for The Silver Tassie. She edited The Viking Opera Guide (1993).
Amanda Holden lives in London, N5.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The New Penguin Opera Guide
Verlag: Penguin Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
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