Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving OperaOpera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover--a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces the reader (whatever his or her level of musical knowledge) to all the elements that make up opera, including:
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Contents
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Becoming an Opera Cognoscente | |
Going to the Opera | |
Discography for Opera 101 | |
Opera as Drama | |
Classical Opera | |
French Opera | |
Grand Opera | |
Opera and Ideas | |
Epic Opera | |
Performances | |
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