The New Penguin Opera Guide (Penguin Reference Books)

by Amanda Holden

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This is a completely updated and revised edition of the Viking Opera Guide, with many new entries and a guide to the best opera recordings. It brings together an extraordinary range of material and information, embracing all forms of opera from its beginnings through to the 21st century, covering composers, individual operas and operatic history. Over 100 distinguished contributors have written on more than 800 composers and examined 1500 operas in detail.… (more)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)

A Night at the Chinese Opera

A Village Romeo and Juliet

Agnes von Hohenstaufen

Alina, regina di Golconda

Alzira (opera)

Amadis (Lully)

Anacréon (Rameau, 1754)

Anacréon (Rameau, 1757)

Arabella

Ariane et Barbe-bleue

Caterina Cornaro (opera)

Ciro in Babilonia

Daphne (opera)

Daphnis et Eglé

Death in Venice (opera)

Demetrio e Polibio

Der Kaiser von Atlantis

Der Zar lässt sich photographieren

Didon (Piccinni)

Die ägyptische Helena

Die Brautwahl

Die drei Pintos

Die Frau ohne Schatten

Ein Feldlager in Schlesien

Elena da Feltre

Elisa e Claudio

Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra

Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I due Foscari

I Lombardi alla prima crociata

Il castello di Kenilworth

Il corsaro

Il crociato in Egitto

Il diluvio universale

Il falegname di Livonia

Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo

Il trionfo di Clelia (Gluck)

Il trittico

Il turco in Italia

Il viaggio a Reims

Imelda de' Lambertazzi

Intermezzo (opera)

Io (opera)

Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni)

L'enfant et les sortilèges

L'equivoco stravagante

L'esule di Roma

L'inganno felice

L'occasione fa il ladro

La battaglia di Legnano

La buona figliuola

La Calisto

La cambiale di matrimonio

La chute de la maison Usher (opera)

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein

La guirlande

La lettera anonima

La muette de Portici

La pietra del paragone

La princesse de Navarre

La rencontre imprévue

La romanziera e l'uomo nero

La scala di seta

La straniera

La vestale (Mercadante)

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali

Le temple de la Gloire

Le Villi

Lear (opera)

Les diamants de la couronne

Les fêtes d'Hébé

Les fêtes de Polymnie

Les vêpres siciliennes

Linda di Chamounix

List of operas by Donizetti

List of operas set in the Crusades

Lo schiavo

Lorenzo Ferrero

Lucio Silla

Luigi Ricci (composer)

Maria, regina d'Inghilterra

Marie Sasse

Marilyn (opera)

Marino Faliero (opera)

Mozart and Salieri (opera)

Perséphone (Stravinsky)

Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn

Punch and Judy (opera)

Ricciardo e Zoraide

Riders to the Sea (opera)

Rita (opera)

Robert le diable

Roland (Piccinni)

Rosmonda d'Inghilterra

Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)

Ruy Blas

Sadko (opera)

Saffo (opera)

Salvatore Giuliano (opera)

Thamos, King of Egypt

Théâtre d'Orléans

The Barber of Seville (Paisiello)

The Bear (opera)

The Burning Fiery Furnace

The Devil's Wall

The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century

The Gypsy Baron

The Indian Queen (opera)

The Lighthouse (opera)

The Little Sweep

The Martyrdom of St Magnus

The Nightingale (opera)

The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga

The Perfect Fool

The Poisoned Kiss

The Rape of Lucretia

The Story of a Real Man

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov)

The Tsar's Bride (opera)

The Turn of the Screw (opera)

The Two Widows

The Wandering Scholar

The Wreckers (opera)

Torquato Tasso (opera)

Torvaldo e Dorliska

Troilus and Cressida (opera)

Virginia (Mercadante)

Yan Tan Tethera (opera)

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This is a completely updated and revised edition of the Viking Opera Guide, with many new entries and a guide to the best opera recordings. It brings together an extraordinary range of material and information, embracing all forms of opera from its beginnings through to the 21st century, covering composers, individual operas and operatic history. Over 100 distinguished contributors have written on more than 800 composers and examined 1500 operas in detail.

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