The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera by Rupert Christiansen

The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera by Rupert Christiansen

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Summary

This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin.

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The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera by Rupert Christiansen

An expertly-written guide that is also extremely readable and accessible.

Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at the universities of Cambridge and Columbia. As well as several books of cultural history, he has written about opera for many publications, including the Spectator, the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Since 1966 he has been opera critic of the Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster.
He also sits on the editorial board of Opera magazine and the jury for the Birgit Nilsson Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.

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ISBN 13 9780571306824
ISBN 10 0571306829
Title The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera
Author Rupert Christiansen
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2014-05-01
Number of pages 448
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.