Start from any point -- the voice category, role, duet, opera, composer -- and you can locate specific duets for any voice type. - Back cover.

This text features works from 350 composers in 16 different languages and 30 voice categories - all sorted and cross-referenced. This one-of-a- kind reference a

This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more oper

Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.