TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christiansen,Rupert
TI  - The Faber pocket guide to opera / 
SN  - 0571224598 (pbk.) 
U1  - 782.1 20
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Faber, 
KW  - Opera
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
N1  - PART ONE Baroque and Classical Opera; Monteverdi ; Cavalli ; Handel ; Gluck ; Mozart --; PART TWO German Opera; Beethoven ; Weber ; Wagner ; Humperdinck ; R. Strauss ; Schoenberg ; Berg ; Weill ; Henze --; PART THREE Italian Opera; Rossini ; Donizetti ; Bellini ; Verdi ; Mascagni ; Leoncavallo ; Giordano ; Puccini --; PART FOUR French Opera; Berlioz ; Gounod ; A. Thomas ; Bizet ; Saint-Saëns ; Offenbach ; Massenet ; Debussy ; Ravel ; Poulenc --; PART FIVE Operetta; Offenbach ; J. Strauss ; Sullivan ; Lehár --; PART SIX English Opera; Purcell ; Britten ; Tippett ; Birtwistle --; PART SEVEN Slavic Opera; Mussorgsky ; Smetana ; Tchaikovsky ; Dvořák ; Janáček ; Bartók ; Shostakovich ; Prokofiev ; Stravinsky --; PART EIGHT American Opera; Gershwin ; Menotti ; Bernstein ; Floyd ; Sondheim ; Adams --; Index of Operas --; Index of Composers
N2  - "An accessible and easy-to-use opera guide by leading opera critic, Robert Christiansen, containing entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar. Features include:
•snapshot plot summaries
•background information on each opera
•Straightforward pointers to help your appreciation of the music and production
•recommended recordings (CD, video and DVD) 
•a brief overview of the history of opera." -- Book cover
ER  -