Seventeen Famous Operas 9780307830838

More Great Operas 9781483569123

In volume II of self-standing Short Guides to 25 of the world's greatest operas, Michael Steen, author of the accla

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Prokofiev's Soviet Operas 110708878X, 9781107088788

Prokofiev considered himself to be primarily a composer of opera, and his return to Russia in the mid-1930s was partiall

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Mozart and His Operas 9780141904054

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Handel's Operas, 1726-1741 1843832682, 9781843832683

Handel ranks with Monteverdi, Mozart and Verdi among the supreme masters of opera, yet between 1754 (when Handel was sti

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The Operas of Benjamin Britten 9780231887564

Provides a reference work and record of the original stage realizations of Britten's operas including all sixteen l

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Seventeen Years in the Underworld 9781984309396

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Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas 9780520932968

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in th

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Operas in English: A Dictionary 9780810883253, 9780810882720

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single

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Monteverdi's last operas: a Venetian trilogy 9780520249349

"That Ellen Rosand's understanding of seventeenth-century Venetian opera is encyclopedic has long been recogni

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I Speak, Therefore I Am: Seventeen Thoughts About Language 9780231533928

Italian linguist and neuroscientist Andrea Moro composes an album of his favorite quotations from the history of philoso

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