Ticket to the Opera by Phil G Goulding

Ticket to the Opera by Phil G Goulding

In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's centerpiece is what Goulding terms the collection--85 classics, among them Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, and Madama Butterfly, that have been packing the world's opera houses for years. This entertaining, meticulously researched book also includes a fascinating chapter on American opera from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach and a discussion of the gems of twentieth-century opera featuring works like Leos Jan cek's The Cunning Little Vixen, Alban Berg's Lulu, and Serge Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges.

Whether you're a curious neophyte, a music lover interested in branching out, or an aficionado eager to compare notes with a brilliant fellow opera buff, you'll prize Ticket to the Opera as an essential volume in your music library.

Phil G.Goulding was born in San Francisco in 1921, raised in Cleveland, went to Hamilton College in upstate New York, and served in the Navy during World War II. Since 1950, he has worked as a newspaper reporter, an assistant secretary of defense, and a petroleum sector executive in Washington, D.C. Confirm or Deny, a book concerning the Pentagon, the press, and the public, was written by him. He currently splits his time between Washington and a Chateaugay Lake cabin in the Adirondacks with his wife, Miriam.

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ISBN 13	9780449909003
ISBN 10	044990900X
Title	Ticket to the Opera
Author	Phil G Goulding
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1996-12-09
Number of pages	704
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