Faber Pocket Guide to Opera

Name: Faber Pocket Guide to Opera
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571306824
Price: 17.50 EUR
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English

By (author): Rupert Christiansen

This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin.

Whether you are a first-timer at La Boheme or a seasoned Wagnerian, every opera-goer can benefit from a little background information, and this book aims to provide just that. Accessible and easy-to-use, it contains entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.

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Product Details

Weight: 235g
Dimensions: 111 x 172mm
Publication Date: 01 May 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: GB
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571306824

About Rupert Christiansen

Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at the universities of Cambridge and Columbia. As well as several books of cultural history, he has written about opera for many publications, including the Spectator, the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Since 1966 he has been opera critic of the Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster.
He also sits on the editorial board of Opera magazine and the jury for the Birgit Nilsson Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.