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By: Hume Paul:
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Hutchinson: 1978
Seller ID: 285
182pp, 135 illustrations, some in colour. View more info
By: Hurst, P. G.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Christopher Johnson: 1958
Seller ID: 10394
256pp, frontis, 19 plates. Previous owner's book plate. Dust jacket worn with some loss in protective cover. View more info
By: Isaacs, Jeremy
Price: £14.00
Publisher: Bantam Press: 1999
Seller ID: 12694
356pp, plates, colour & b/w, line drawings. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. View more info
By: Jarman, Douglas
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1990
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 10805
ix, 181pp, Illustrations, music examples. ; Cambridge Opera Handbooks View more info
By: Kitcher, Philip & Schacht, Richard
Price: £9.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2005
Seller ID: 12291
256pp. View more info
By: Klein Herman
Price: £8.00
Publisher: George Routledge: 1933
Seller ID: 12690
xxvi, 275pp, 12 plates. Boards a little worn and stained, internally very good. View more info
By: Knapp, J Merrill
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Robert Hale: 1975
Seller ID: 4423
x, 371pp, illustrations, music examples. A survey of the world of opera, highlighting trends and outstanding figures. Brief plot summaries and analysis in considerable detail. View more info
By: Kobbe - (edited by The Earl Of Harewood)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Bodley Head: 1991
Seller ID: 9508
205pp, illustrations in colour & b/w. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. View more info
By: Kramer, Lawrence
Price: £20.00
Publisher: University of California: 2004
Seller ID: 9834
258pp, illustrations, music examples. View more info
By: Lenton, Sarah
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Robson Books: 1998
Seller ID: 10773
211pp, 8 plates, cartoon illustrations by the author. Slight creasing to top edge of dust jacket. A fascinating glimpse of life on the other side of the curtain. Every step in the development of a new production of Handel's Xerxes at the English National Opera - from casting and initial set designs, to the making of costumes and props, through to the dress rehearsal and opening night. View more info
By: Mander, Raymond & Mitchenson, Joe
Price: £8.00
Publisher: W. H. Allen: 1977
Seller ID: 8303
246pp, 32 plates. Previous owners book plate. Very slight wear to top edge of dust jacket. View more info
By: Mander, Raymond & Mitchenson, Joe
Price: £6.00
Publisher: W. H. Allen: 1987
Seller ID: 8304
246pp View more info
By: May, Robin
Price: £5.00
Publisher: New York, Hippocrene Books: 1977
Seller ID: 8318
364pp, 16 plates. Previous owner's book plate on front paste-down. View more info
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Rochester University Press: 1998
Seller ID: 11893
xiii, 262pp, music examples, text figures. ; Eastman Studies in Music View more info
Price: £9.00
Publisher: 2006
Seller ID: 9770
208pp, 55 halftones, music examples. ; The New Grove Guide View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1996
Seller ID: 6967
264pp, 8 plates. The eight operas covered are: Simon Boccanegra, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Lucia di Lammermoor, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata and La Boheme. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2002
Seller ID: 7657
xii, 219pp, music examples. A feature of Wagnerian and post-Wagnerian opera is the tendency to link scenes with numerous and often surprisingly lengthy orchestral interludes, frequently performed with the curtain closed. Often taken for granted or treated as a filler by audiences and critics, these interludes can take on very prominent roles, representing dream sequences, journeys and sexual encounters, and in some cases becoming a highlight of the opera. The author inve... View more info
By: Opstad, Gillian
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Boydell Press: 2009
Seller ID: 11740
392pp, plates. Illustrates the prejudices and difficulties women singers of their era faced. The three women presented here were not only remarkable for the resilience and initiative they had to develop, but also for their willingness to adapt themselves to the opportunities offered by the emerging technologies of recording, radio and film. It is also the story of the background to the opera's creation, and the frequently stormy relationships between the author of the or... View more info
By: Orrey, Leslie
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Pitman: 1976
Seller ID: 3773
376pp, 200+ b/w photographs, 24 colour plates. 700+ operas with dates of premieres & outstanding revivals for all works in the present international repertory - biographical notes on composers, librettists, singers, conductors, designers, producers, writers. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. View more info
By: Osborne, Charles
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: 1992
Seller ID: 1002
251pp, a few music examples. Ex library, minimal stamps, marks from sellotape and number on base of spine. Good clean copy View more info
