Essays on Opera

by Winton Dean

Book Overview

Winton Dean has long been regarded as the foremost British expert on Handel and Bizet, as well as an outstanding writer on opera in general. In this wide-ranging volume, Dean brings together his best writing over the past thirty-five years, each essay a small masterpiece of opera connoisseurship. The thirty pieces included here cover a diversity of opera-related subjects, ranging from shorter articles from The Listener to substantial surveys such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198163843
• ISBN13: 9780198163848
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"