The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521646833)

A team of scholars and writers examines important Romantic operas and traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age. The volume analyzes grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Hal vy and discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and the Czechoslovakian territories, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.

Author: Jonathan Cross
ISBN-10: 0521646839
ISBN-13: 9780521646833
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2003
Pages: 522
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.62w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1478