...Stella Thebridge RR 2017/114 Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century Mary F.   McVicker McFarland Jefferson, NC 2016 vii + 274 pp. ISBN 978 0 7864 9513 9   (print); ISBN 978 1 4766 2361 0   (e-book) £43.95 $39.95Available in the United Kingdom, Europe...

... for undergraduates – the encyclopaedia itemises operas and synopses, successive versions of works, librettists and playwrights, singers, journalists and other individuals associated with Verdi’s life and output. These people are not only big names but also smaller, barely-known figures, such as Donnino Mingardi, who...

... be the first book to go to for amateurs wishing to know a little more about opera and its background. They should try more brief introductions. It will, however, deserve a place in specialist music libraries. This handbook is a collection of scholarly essays examining a whole range of issues relating...

...Stella Thebridge Nicholas Ivor Martin The Opera Manual [New edition] Lanham, MD and Plymouth Scarecrow Press 2014 xxxvi + 442 pp. ISBN9780810888685(print);ISBN9780810888692(e-book) £51.95 $85 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Guides...

...Stella Thebridge Scott L. Balthazar Historical Dictionary of Opera Lanham, MD and Plymouth Scarecrow Press 2013 xxiii+536pp. 9780810867680(print);9780810879430(e-book) £80 $125 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Dictionaries History...

...Stella Thebridge Edited by Nicholas   Till . The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press   2012 . xi+351 pp. , ISBN: 978 0 521 85561 7 (hbck); 978 0 521 67169 9 (pbck)   £55 $85 (hbck); £19.99 $29.99 (pbck) Cambridge Companions to Music...

...Jean O'Neill Uhl Opera in Video . Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press   Last visited February 2011 . Purchase price ranges from $10,000‐$25,000 with $125‐$500 annual access fees; annual subscription fee ranges from $995‐$2,495 URL: http://opiv.alexanderstreet.com/ ©...

...Stella Thebridge Edited by Joyce   Bourne . A Dictionary of Opera Characters (revised edition) . Oxford : Oxford University Press   2010 . xv + 354 pp. , ISBN: 978 0 19 955039 5   £9.99/$18.95 This edition first published 2008 as A Book of Opera Characters Oxford...

...Eric Jukes In Part III – Reception – the educational and practical aspects of the operas as well as their perception in countries other than England are investigated. Within this section, Mike Leigh writes a personal journey explored through Topsy‐Turvy, the 1999 film about the creation...

...Stella Thebridge Mary   Hunter . Mozart's Operas: A Companion . New Haven, CT, and London : Yale University Press   2008 . xii+268 pp. , ISBN: 978 0 300 11833 9   £25 $35 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Opera Arts This is a thorough account...

...Erica Swenson Danowitz Ken   Wlaschin . Encyclopedia of American Opera . Jefferson, NC : McFarland   2006 . v+480 pp. , ISBN: 978 0 7864 2109 1   $95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Encyclopaedias Opera United States of America Opera is often...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Music Opera Performing arts Music lovers and especially critics have long disagreed about the reputations of those two great opera composers of the nineteenth century, Wagner and his contemporary, Verdi, and no doubt they always...

...David Harrison However, opera lovers and committed newcomers, for whom this book is avowedly aimed, will be warned about pitfalls as well as enthused about the great successes. Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmilla is described as having a “cumbersome dramatic structure”, a feature not unknown among...

...Peter Guilding Edited by David   Charlton . The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera . Cambridge Companions to Music : Cambridge University Press   2003 . xxi + 496 pp. , ISBN: 0 521 64118 7 (hbk); 0 521 64683 9 (pbk)   £50 $70 (hbk); £19.95 $26 (pbk) © Emerald Group...