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The Good Opera Guide will tell you all you want to know about over eighty of the most popular operas recorded on CD. It gives the plots, what to look for in the music, news and gossip about the way each opera was composed and first produced plus a trenchant citique of each one. This book will amuse and infuriate opera lovers who are opera-prone, but opera-ignorant.
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'The first guide to take the sensible decision of separeting comments on the music (serious and helpful)from descriptions of the plot (invariably flippant and often funny)' -- Sunday Telegraph
'The first guide to take the sensible decisionof separeting comments on the music (serious and helpful)from descriptions of the plot (invariably flippant and often funny)' -- Sunday Telegraph
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Sir Denis Forman was born in 1917 and was for many years Charman and Chief Executive of Granada Television. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Royal Opera House for nine years.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1842124706
- ISBN 13 9781842124703
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages976
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