Opera 101
A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
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Fred Plotkin
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Fred Plotkin
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Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover. It is a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook for learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera, who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the elements that make up opera.
The major part of Opera 101 is devoted to an almost minute-by-minute analysis of 11 key operas, ranging from Verdi's thunderous masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini's electrifying Tosca to works by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, and to the psychological complexities of Richard Strauss's Elektra. Once you have completed Opera 101, you will be prepared to see and hear any opera you encounter, thanks to this book's unprecedented detail and enjoyable method of revealing the riches of opera.
©1994 Fred Plotkin (P)2004 Blackstone AudiobooksWhat listeners say about Opera 101
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- Cliente Amazon
- 17-07-2017
I can`t hear any thing after download,of this audi
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the book is good my problem is ;I want the audio after download no reprodaction at all.
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Good enough for people loving the music of any kind
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