A Listener's Guide to Mozart's Great Operas (Dover Books on Music, Music History)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486228584 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
343 musical illus.. Full, penetrating analysis, guide to five great operas: Don Giovanni, Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, and Die Zauberflöte
"Charm and expertise" according to Izolda. If I am not wrong, this book has been previously released under the title "Famous Mozart Operas. An analytical guide for the opera-goer and armchair listener", that's at least the title of the second edition I now have in front of me. For the readers acquainted with it, this new title may be a little misleading and suggesting a new revised edition. Equally misleading may be the double authorship: the Amazon.com database gives both Spike Hughes and Patrick Cairns Hughes as the book's authors, but this is simply a confusion resulting from the fact that Spike Hughes's real name - Patrick Cairns - has been used for copyr