Author: Charles Osborne

The major operas of Mozart, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Cosìfan Tutte ,are well known to music listeners everywhere, hav...

Every opera lover enjoys a performance more when accompanied by a knowledgeable friend. In this indispensable guide, well-known opera critic Charle...

Wagner's operas can be counted among the most important works of art of the nineteenth century. But Wagner was a composer around whom violent artis...

While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life,three of them one-acters designed to be performed together,he has to be ranked today as t...

A comprehensive and authorised biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie covering books, films, TV and plays – revised and updated edi...