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The
Collector's Guide to Opera Recordings and Videos
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of 85 Operas (By
Title) or (By
Composer)
The
Collector's Guide to Books on Opera (PARTI)
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A
continuation of our listing of useful books about Opera -- opera composers,
opera singers, opera librettos, guides to opera and reference books.
All of the titles are also linked to the Amazon
Books web site, where you can read more about the books and even
buy them. In the interest of full disclosure, you should know
that I am an Amazon
Books Associate.
REFERENCE/GENERAL
INTEREST
| PLOT
SYNOPSES/LIBRETTI | COMPOSERS
| MOZART
PUCCINI
| VERDI
| WAGNER
| SINGERS
PERFORMANCE --
REVIEWS | BOOKS
ABOUT RECORDS/VIDEOS | CAMBRIDGE
OPERA HANDBOOKS
ENGLISH OPERA
HANDBOOKS | THE
OPERA GUIDES
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PERFORMANCE
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BOOKS
ABOUT RECORDS/VIDEOS
- A
Guide to Opera Recordings,
by Ethan Mordden -- THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. The
publisher is out of stock. If you would like to purchase this title,
we recommend that you occasionally recheck the Amazon site to see
if it's been reprinted.
- Herman
Klein and the Gramophone : Being a Series of Essays on the Bel Canto
(1923 the Gramophone and the Singer), by Herman Klein,
William R. Moran -- A wonderful treasure trove of essays that
Herman Klein wrote for the Gramaphone Magazine in the 1920's; also
including his book on Bel Canto technique. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
- An
Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias : A Handbook for Singers, Coaches,
Teachers and Students, by Martial Singher
- Legendary
Voices, by Nigel Douglas -- Get the Companion
CD.
- The
Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video, by Paul Gruber (Preface),
Metropolitan Opera(New York, N.Y.)
- The
Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera, by Paul Gruber (Editor)
- Opera
on CD : The Essential Guide to the Best CD Recordings of 100 Operas,
by Alan Blyth
- Opera
on Video : The Essential Guide, by Alan Blyth
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CAMBRIDGE
OPERA HANDBOOKS
- Vincenzo
Bellini : Norma, by David R. B. Kimbell -- Not Yet Available:
You may still order this title. Amazon will ship it to you when
it is released by the publisher.
- Claude
Debussy : Pelleas et Melisande, by Roger Nichols, Richard Langham
Smith
- W.A.
Mozart, Cosi Fan Tutte, by Bruce Alan Brown
- W.A.
Mozart : Die Zauberfloete, by Peter Branscombe
- W.A.
Mozart : Idomeneo, by Julian Rushton
- W.A.
Mozart : Le Nozze Di Figaro, by Tim Carter
- Giuseppe
Verdi : Otello, by James Hepokoski
- Ludwig
Van Beethoven : Fidelio, by Paul Robinson
- Verdi
: Requiem, by David Rosen
- Richard
Wagner : Die Meistersinger Von Nuernberg, by John Warrack
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ENGLISH
NATIONAL OPERA GUIDES
- Cosi
Fan Tutte : Mozart (English National Opera Guide, No. 23), by
John Nicholas (Editor)
- Don
Giovanni (SPECIAL ORDER), by Nicholas John
- Fidelio,
by Forbes Deane
- Jenufa
and Katya Kabanova (Opera Guide, No 33) (SPECIAL ORDER), by
Leos Janecek, Nicholas John
- La
Traviata (SPECIAL ORDER), by Nicholas John
- Marriage
of Figaro/Le Nozze Di Figaro, by Nicholas John (Editor)
- Otello
(English National Opera Guide 7), by Nicholas John
- The
Valkyrie/Die Walkuere (English National Opera Series, No 23),
by Richard Wagner
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THE
OPERA GUIDES
- Aida,
by Guiseppe Verdi
- Arabella
(Opera Guide, 30), by Richard Straus
- The
Barber of Seville and Moses (Opera Guide, No 36), by Giacomo
Rossini
- Don
Carlos/Don Carlo (Opera Guide, No. 46), by Giuseppe Verdi
- Eugene
Onegin (Opera Guide, No 38), by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- The
Force of Destiny/La Forza Del Destino (SPECIAL ORDER), by Giuseppe
Verdi
- Macbeth
(Opera Guide, No 41), by Giuseppe Verdi
- Madam
Butterfly/Madama Butterfly (Opera Guide, No. 26), by Giacomo
Puccini
- Manon
(Opera Guide, No. 25), by Jules Massenet
- A
Masked Ball/Un Ballo in Maschera (Opera Guide, No. 40), by Giuseppe
Verdi
- The
Operas of Monteverdi (Opera Guide, No. 45), by Claudio Monteverdi
- Pelleas
and Melisande, by Claude Debussy
- Parsifal
(Opera Guide, No.34), by Richard Wagner
- Tannhaeuser
(Opera Guide, No. 39), by Richard Wagner
- Wozzeck
(Opera Guide, No. 42), by Alban Berg
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