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An Opera Miscellany: Everything You Never Knew About Opera for Buffs and Bluffers - Hardcover

Robert Weinberg

 
9781905736287: An Opera Miscellany: Everything You Never Knew About Opera for Buffs and Bluffers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1905736282 ISBN 13: 9781905736287
Publisher: Cyan Books, 2007

Synopsis

This fascinating book brings together for the first time everything you never knew about the world of opera. Fun, engaging and entertaining, it is a collection of facts, figures and miscellany which captures the sublimity and silliness of opera. From opera etiquette to the role of goats in opera, bible characters to favorite foods of the leading sopranos, no opera fan (whether serious or armchair) anywhere will fail to be educated and entertained. The book includes a foreword by Lesley Garrett, one of opera's favorite sopranos.

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Synopsis

You might know Bellini from Puccini, Bizet from Britten, even Shaposhnikov from Shostakovich but can you name the ten opera plots in which a goat features heavily? Opera buffs as well as fans of the Muppet opera (Pigoletto, of course) will be entertained (and possibly educated) by this varied and engaging compendium of facts, figures, trivia, statistics, stories and quotations from the colourful world of opera. This is a miscellany of the madness, with operatic proportions of wit and wisdom (includes Puccini's recipe for cooking beans, and Rossini's tips on recycling), the valuable knowledge contained in this little book will confound, delight and amaze even the most hardened Glydebourne-goer.

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Publisher
Cyan Books
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1905736282
ISBN 13 
9781905736287
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
196