2000 Opera: Composers, Works, Performers

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First English edition. Illustrated throughout with over one thousand five hundred beautiful images, many of which are in colour. Written to aid a new generation of opera-goers in the discovery of the vividness of opera. Containing a work-by-work guide to over three hundred operas by more than one hundred composers. Produced by a team of international experts, providing an detailed account of the origins of each opera, an exploration of the music, highlights of instrumental and stage realisation, as well as recollections of some notable performers. Edited by Andras Batta, a Hungarian music historian, and Sigrid Neef, a German musicologist and theatre scholar, focused on Russian and Soviet opera.