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Opera 101

A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

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Opera 101

Van: Fred Plotkin
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Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.

Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover. It is a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook for learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera, who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the elements that make up opera.

The major part of Opera 101 is devoted to an almost minute-by-minute analysis of 11 key operas, ranging from Verdi's thunderous masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini's electrifying Tosca to works by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, and to the psychological complexities of Richard Strauss's Elektra. Once you have completed Opera 101, you will be prepared to see and hear any opera you encounter, thanks to this book's unprecedented detail and enjoyable method of revealing the riches of opera.

©1994 Fred Plotkin; (P)2004 Blackstone Audiobooks Komponisten & Musiker Musik Unterhaltung & Stars
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I found this book to be a entertaining intro to opera, I had very little previous knowledge about opera, so I can not judge how good the content is, but for me it was more than sufficient to keep me excited about opera music.

An entertaining intro to opera

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Can you imagine someone publishing an audiobook with the subtitle "a complete guide to learning and loving opera", a playing time of more than 18 hours - and without a single second of opera music in it?
Nor could I.

But after more then an hour of tiresome listening to boring birth- and death-dates, dates of premieres and whatever I gave up hope for any shred of music. As far as I can tell after this approx. 65 minutes of boredom it's just that someone reads the more than 500 pages of the printed version to you. Nobody can learn to love opera this way in my humble opinion.

Instead I would highly recommend you the Thomson Smilie Opera Series.
It's one audiobook per opera, each takes about one hour. The operas are presented in a very entertaining way, with some historic background and - most important: with wonderful excerpts from the music.
Just search vor Thomson Smilie on audible...

What a disappointment

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