30-Second Opera by Hugo Shirley

30-Second Opera by Hugo Shirley

The bestselling 30-Second… series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one image, all digestible in just 30 seconds.  Live operatic performance was once part of popular culture yet in modern times it has become caricatured as exclusive, overwhelming and, often, very very long. 30-Second Opera raises the curtain so that anyone can enjoy opera, classical or contemporary, without the elitism. Compiled by opera buffs, not the bourgeoisie, it serves up all you need to enjoy the spectacle, the music, and above all the voices – from Farinelli to femme fatale.

Hugo Shirley is Opera Critic of The Spectator, a Deputy Editor of Opera Magazine and a critic for Gramophone and writes widely on music and opera. Having received his PhD from King’s College London in 2011, he also maintains a profile in musicology as an Early Career Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and has published work in the Cambridge Opera Journal, The Journal 
of the Royal Musical Association and 
Music & Letters. 
 

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ISBN 13	9781782407560
ISBN 10	1782407561
Title	30-Second Opera
Author	Hugo Shirley
Series	30 Second
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2019-02-14
Number of pages	160
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