The Oxford Dictionary of Opera - Hardcover

Warrack, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198691645 ISBN 13: 9780198691648

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Opera has achieved a breadth of appeal unprecedented in its history, commanding the patronage of the wealthy but also a popular following, generating well-filled opera houses, as well as spectacular mass events, public television relays of famous occasions, and huge record sales. "The Oxford Dictionary of Opera" is a comprehensive one-volume reference work on the subject. The entries include composers, individual operas, well-known arias and principal characters; singers, conductors, producers and designers; technical terms; librettists, and authors of works and the popular subjects on which operas have been based; opera companies, opera-houses and festivals; and countries and cities in which opera has been staged. The information provided includes opera synopses and first performance details, worklists of composers and listings of their writings and catalogues; bibliographies of works about opera; debuts and career highlights of singers, with notes on voice type, style, and reputation; definitions and discussions of technical terms and operatic styles; historical surveys of the history of opera in one country. The text is linked by a network of cross-references and is written in a style accessible to the non-specialist. The work has its roots in the earlier "Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera" (2/E, 1979 by John Warrack and Harold Rosenthal), drawing on the same basic framework though the overall extent is considerably larger, the coverage wider, and the information more up to date. A few entries have been taken over from the COD Opera without change while some others have been used but expanded and updated.

About this title

About the Author

About the Editors:
John Warrack is Lecturer in Music at the University of Oxford and co-author of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, second edition. Ewan West is a Research Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford, and Director of Studies in Music at Somerville College, Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198691645
• ISBN 13: 9780198691648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 800