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Amanda HoldenThe Penguin Concise Guide to Opera

The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera

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The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera

. This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today - ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.

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This book is perfect for Dr. Zeiss' Opera Lit class.
This "concise" edition of the significantly bulkier and heavier "New Penguin Opera Guide" (2001) includes no illustrations and covers "only" 250 operas (instead of the the other edition's roughly 2000 operas, not to mention 750 additional composers). Of course, the 250 works that ARE covered here include virtually all of the operas commonly performed.

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