Historical Dictionary of Opera

This is a further addition to Scarecrow's excellent Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts series. Covering opera from 1600 to the present day this dictionary will join its companion volumes as a useful quick reference guide for students and, in this case, opera-lovers.

As with other volumes in the series, the reader is offered a chronology of key dates of composers, singers and works, while the introduction succinctly takes the reader through each century, with the summary of the twentieth century particularly serving as a useful potted history for the amateur. Information is then arranged alphabetically by subject, with...