This is a handy, portable guide to opera: composers, artists, national trends. The authors have done a good job of ferreting out information and putting it together. If you just need to check which opera has a prima donna called Isabella (Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri) or the definition of a covered tone, this is a good book to grab.
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Praise for The Oxford Dictionary of Opera:
"The most authoritative single-volume work of its kind."--Indpendent on Sunday (London)
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