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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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 recorded, I think Wagner fans would disagree. He recommends the...

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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 have highly personal responses to recordings we've known for a...

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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 significantly expanded from the previous edition, especially...

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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 a performance of Il Pirata, Pskovityanka or Fennimore and...

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Posted: Aug-08-2008

Music Ed. major

When I was a music ed. major at Huntington University, I used this book initially to help with a powerpoint presentation on operas. It is a great resource for the common operas of old and new. Enjoy!

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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 more recent recordings included. Alas, we have the same...

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Posted: Aug-16-2007

Just KEEPS Getting BETTER and BETTER!!!

Matthew Boyden, You've DONE IT AGAIN! You've updated your marvelous "Bible of Opera" and, again, increased its useful value many times over!I have used this wonderful "guide" for 3 revisions, now, and I must tell you that there simply IS NOT another volume of any kind out there that is as much...

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