A Pocket Guide to Opera

by Rupert Christiansen

• ISBN13: 9780571209002
• ISBN10: 0571209009
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-11-20
• Publisher: Faber & Faber

Summary

One of Faber's highly successful Pocket Guide series, this is an essential work of reference for all opera lovers, whether first-timers or hardened fans. Here is a handy, readable and easy-to-use opera guide, containing entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar. Features include snapshot plot summaries, straightforward pointers to help your appreciation of the music and production, recommended recordings on CD, video and DVD and a brief over-view of the history of opera.

Author Biography

Rupert Christiansen is the opera critic for the London Daily Telegraph and a member of the editorial board of Opera magazine. He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. He lives in England.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Notes

Part One: Baroque and Classical Opera
Claudio Monteverdi
Francesco Cavalli
George Frideric Handel
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Part Two: German Opera
Ludwig van Beethoven
Carl Maria von Weber
Richard Wagner
Engelbert Humperdinck
Richard Strauss
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Kurt Weill
Hans Werner Henze

Part Three: Italian Opera
Gioachino Rossini
Gaetano Donizetti
Vincenzo Bellini
Giuseppe Verdi
Pietro Mascagni
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Umberto Giordano
Giacomo Puccini

Part Four: French Opera
Hector Berlioz
Charles Gounod
Ambroise Thomas
Georges Bizet
Camille Saint-Saëns
Jacques Offenbach
Jules Massenet
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Francis Poulene

Part Five: Operetta
Jacques Offenbach
Johann Strauss
Arthur Sullivan
Franz Lehár

Part Six: English Opera
Henry Purcell
Benjamin Britten
Michael Tippert
Harrison Birtwistle

Part Seven: Slavic Opera
Modest Mussogursky
Bedrich Smetana
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antonin Dvorák
Leoš Janácek
Béla Bartók
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sergei Prokofiev
Igor Stravinsky

Part Eight: American Opera
George Gershwin
Gian Carlo Mentotti
Leonard Bernstein
Carlisle Floyd
Stephen Sondheim
John Adams

Index of Operas

Index of Composers

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