The Opera Lover\'s Companion
The Opera Lover\'s Companion Every opera lover enjoys a performance more when accompanied by a knowledgeable friend. Osborne fills in the details on 175 of the world's most frequently performed…
Specifikacia The Opera Lover\'s Companion
The Opera Lover\'s Companion
Every opera lover enjoys a performance more when accompanied by a knowledgeable friend. Osborne fills in the details on 175 of the world's most frequently performed operas, including facts about the composer and the music, a plot outline, accounts of famous performers, and much more. In this indispensable guide, well-known opera critic Charles Osborne provides exactly that.
Reading it is like going to the opera with a knowledgeable friend who tells you enough to make you want to see the piece but not so much you're drowned in superfluous detail."--Richard Fawkes, Opera Now "What this invaluable book contains is the ideal rundown on 175 operas from Auber's Fra Diavolo to Zimmerman's Die Soldaten, in each case putting the work in context within the composer's development, with a list of "This book is exactly what the title claims: an opera lover's companion.