The Rough Guide to Opera 4 (Rough Guide Music Guides)

The Rough Guide to Opera is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, animating the main events of their careers and revealing their social and musical context. Entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas both famous and neglected and comprehensive reviews of over a thousand CD?s from recent digital releases to the best historical recordings. From historical figures like Caruso to contemporary stars like Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming and Daniel Barenboim, discover the finest singers and conductors on record. Superb photographs, drawings, and CD cover images make this title an Opera-lover?s essential.

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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-11-2009; Near Complete Garbage. Go with Third Ear Instead.; While the setup is decent, the author takes Opera by era describes the composers and their works and gives recommendations, it ends there. The recommendations are terrible. FIGARO the author says is the best opera Georg Solti ever...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-28-2008; You can do without this.; Every opera fan who has even a little knowledge of recordings out there is accustomed to being surprised (to say the least) by the recommendations of others, especially those who purport to be experts. It's part of the art, as we all...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-17-2008; My Constant Advisor; This is my favorite source for reviews of opera recordings. Although I do not slavishly follow its recommendations, I never fail to consult it prior to buying CDs. It is also a very informative read concerning opera. This edition is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-29-2008; Opera CD Guide; This interesting book reviews numerous performances of Operas on CD, some of them commonly performed works, but also many of the lesser commonly performed operas. This breadth is the book's main virtue. Let's say you're going to attend...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-17-2008; My Constant Advisor; This is my favorite source for reviews of opera recordings. Although I do not slavishly follow its recommendations, I never fail to consult it prior to buying CDs. It is also a very informative read concerning opera. This edition is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-19-2007; only worth buying if you don't own the 3rd edition already; I have owned The Rough Guide To Opera since the first edition came out several years ago. I though the second and third editions were worth buying, but cannot say the same for the fourth edition. For starters, I expected to see a lot...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-11-2009; Near Complete Garbage. Go with Third Ear Instead.; While the setup is decent, the author takes Opera by era describes the composers and their works and gives recommendations, it ends there. The recommendations are terrible. FIGARO the author says is the best opera Georg Solti ever...; read full review | report as inappropriate