Handbuch der Oper

Handbuch der Oper
GERMAN TEXT

The classic, now up to date

The authoritative reference work for connoisseurs, practitioners and enthusiasts combines scholarly reliability, practicality and readability.

For all questions relating to role casting, playing time, casting, libretto, plot, historical background and stylistic position.

- Updated: Over 100 new opera portraits from the early Baroque to the recent present, written by Robert Maschka and other high-ranking opera experts.

- The current opera repertoire in around 340 detailed descriptions of works

- Indexes of specialist roles, titles, composers and librettists

- Now in a high-quality hardcover edition

The authors of the new texts:
Robert Maschka and Norbert Abels, Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Michael Haag, Gregor Herzfeld, Patrick Klingenschmitt, Marie Luise Maintz, Volker Mertens, Clemens Prokop, Ivana Rentsch, Christoph Rinne, Olaf Mathias Roth, Olaf Schmitt, Herbert Schneider, Uwe Schweikert, Annette Thein, Anja-Rosa Thöming, Marianne Zelger-Vogt.

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