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Operatic Insights: Understanding and Enjoying Great Music for the Stage
Author(s): Betsy Schwarm (Author)
- Publisher: Tattered Cover Press
- Publication Date: January 20, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 394 pages
- ISBN-10: 1938859014
- ISBN-13: 9781938859014
Book Description
a user-friendly survey of opera history, with close consideration of 101 particular works, from the Renaissance to the present day, including historical background, musical highlights, and plot synopses
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About the Author
Music historian Betsy Schwarm has worked in classical music for over twenty years as a radio announcer/producer, university professor of music, and pre-concert/pre-opera speaker. She also writes about music for many organizations, including Encyclopædia Britannica, the Cleveland Orchestra, Denver’s Opera Colorado, and numerous others at home and abroad. In her books, she presents perspectives she has shared with tens of thousands of music lovers, from music professionals to general listeners: anyone who’s interested in a behind-the-notes perspective on great music and how to get more from one’s listening experience.
