Getting Opera A Guide for the Cultured but Confused

Name: Getting Opera A Guide for the Cultured but Confused
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ISBN: 9780671041397

ISBN-10: 0671041398

ISBN-13: 9780671041397

Edition: 2000

Authors: Matt Dobkin

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Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication date: 3/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Getting Opera


Getting Opera How I got it-and why I decided to write this book


Exploding Opera A look at some myths-and truths-surrounding opera (and a few reasons why you should go)


Tracing Opera A short history of opera from its origins to today


Singing Opera An explanation of the classical voice


Attending Opera Your start-to-finish guide to a fun and worthwhile night at the opera


Fifty Operas


John Adams Nixon in China Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio Vincenzo Bellini Norma Alban Berg Wozzeck Lulu Georges Bizet Carmen Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes Claude Debussy Pellï¿½as et Mï¿½lisande Gaetano Donizetti L'Elisir d'Amore Lucia di Lammermoor George Gershwin Porgy and Bess Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach Charles Gounod Faust George Frideric Handel


Giulio Cesare Leos Janï¿½cek Kï¿½t'a Kabanovï¿½ Ruggiero Leoncavallo Pagliacci Jules Massenet Werther Claudio Monteverdi Orfeo Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Don Giovanni Cosifan tutte Die Zauberflote Modest


Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Jacques Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann Giacomo Puccini La Boheme Tosca Madama Butterfly Turandot Gioacchino Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia La Cenerentola Camille Saint-Saï¿½ns Samson et Dalila Arnold Schoenberg Moses und Aron Richard Strauss Salome Der Rosenkavalier Ariadne auf Naxos Igor Stravinsky The Rake's Progress Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto Il Trovatore La Traviata Aida Otello Richard WagnerTannhï¿½user Lohengrin Tristan und Isolde DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN Das Rheingold Die Walkure Siegfried Gotterdammerung Parsifal


Starting Your Record Collection


Further Reading


Acknowledgments