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'The New Penguin Opera Guide' is the most complete one-volume guide to opera ever produced. It embraces all forms of opera from its beginnings through to the present, covering composers, individual operas, operatic history and a guide to the best opera recordings. Over 100 distinguished contributors have written on more than 800 composers and examined 1500 operas in detail.
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Amanda Holden studied music at Oxford with Egon Wellesz and has taught at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her opera translations, many of them commissioned by the English National Opera, are performed throughout the English speaking world. She edited The Viking Opera Guide (1993).
Amanda Holden lives in London, N5.
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