Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas

(Limelight). For well over twenty years, M. Owen Lee has been offering intermission talks during the Saturday afternoon Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, wh

First Published in 1990. Information about individual operas and other types of musical theater is scattered throughout the enormous literature of music. This b

Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of