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Study Guide

Suggested Readings In Opera

Introductions to opera:

Plotkin, Fred. Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera .
New York : Hyperion, 1994.

Opera guides:

Holden, Amanda, ed. The New Penguin Opera Guide .
London : Penguin Books, 2002.

For children:

Husain, Shahrukh. The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera .
New York : Barefoot Books, 1999.

Rosenberg, Jane. Sing Me a Story: The Metropolitan Opera's Book of Opera Stories for Children .
New York : Thames & Hudson, 1989.

Siberell, Anne. Bravo! Brava! A Night at the Opera .
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Thee, Christian. Behind the Curtain: Hansel and Gretel.
New York : Workman Publishing Company, Inc., 1994.

Bibliography of Selected Reading

Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner, edited by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker; University of California Press, 1989.

Baldani, Gabriele. The Story of Giuseppe Verdi: Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera; Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Biancolli, Louis. The Opera Reader; McGraw-Hill; 1953.

Budden, Julian. The Operas of Verdi; Oxford University Press, 1978.

Conrad. Peter. Romantic Opera and Literary Form; University of California Press, 1977.

Conrad, Peter. A Song of Love and Death - the Meaning of Opera; Poseidon Press, 1987.

Donington, Robert. Opera and its Symbols, the Unity of Words, Music and Staging; Yale University Press, 1990.

Goldovsky, Boris. Bringing Opera to Life - Operatic Acting and Stage Direction; Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Interviste e incontre con Verdi, edited by Marcello Conati; Cornell University Press, 1984.

Kimball, David R. B. Italian Opera; Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Kolodin, Irving. The Opera Omnibus - Four Centuries of Critical Give and Take; Dutton, 1976.

Lindenberger, Herbert Samuel. Opera, the Extravagant Art; Cornell University Press, 1984.

Marco, Guy A. Opera - a Research and Information Guide; Garland Press, 1984.

Mordden, Ethan. Opera in the 20th Century - Sacred, Profane, Godot; Oxford University Press, 1978.

Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane. Verdi, a Biography; Oxford University Press, 1993.

The New Grove's Masters of Opera: Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini; W. W. Norton, 1983.

Robinson, Paul A. Opera and Ideas; Harper & Row, 1985.

Sternfield, Frederick. The Birth of Opera; Oxford University Press. 1993.

The Verdi Companion, edited by William Weaver and Martin Chusid; W. W. Norton, 1979.

Weaver, William. The Golden Century of Italian Opera - from Rossini to Puccini; Thames & Hudson, 1980.

James Harp

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