edited, revised, and updated by the Earl of Harewood.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st American ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Putnam,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1987.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 1404 pages :
Other Physical Details
music ;
Dimensions
25 cm
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes index.
Text of Note
Previous ed. published as: The new Kobbé's complete opera book. 1976.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Opera before Gluck / Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Giovanni Pergolesi -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- German opera / Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria van Weber, Albert Lortzing, Otto Nicolai, Friedrich von Flotow -- Richard Wagner -- German opera continued / Franz von Suppe', Peter Cornelius, Johann Strauss, Engelbert Humperdink -- Italian opera / Domenico Cimarosa, Luigi Cherubini, Gasparo Spontini, Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Gaetano Donizstti, Vincenzo Bellini -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Italian opera continued / Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Alfredo Catalani, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano -- French opera / Franqois Adrein Boieldieu, Daniel Franqis Auber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Franqois Halevy, Adolphe Adam, Hector Berlioz, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Franqois Gounod, Jacques Offenbach, Edouard Lalo, Camille Saint-Saens, Leo Delibes, Georges Bizet, Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier, Jules Massenet -- Russian opera / Michael Ivanovich Glinka, Aleksandr Porfyrevich Borodin, Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky, Peter Illitsch Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov -- English opera / Michael William Balfe, Julius Benedict, Vincent Wallace -- Czech opera / Bedrich Smetana -- Antonin Dvorak -- Polish opera / Stanislav Moniuszko -- German opera / Eugen d'Albert, Richard Strauss, Hans Pfitzner, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Carl Orff, Paul Hindemith, Viktor Ullmann, Kurt Weill, Gottfried von Einem, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Gyorgi Ligeti, Hans Werner Henze, Aribert Reimann -- Italian opera / Giacomo Puccini, Francesco Cilea, Ferruccio Busoni, Italo Montezzi, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Riccardo Zandonai, Luigi Dallapiccola -- French opera / Gabriel Faure, Gustave Charpentier, Claude Debussy, Paul Dukas, Albert Roussel, Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc -- Russian Opera / Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Dmitri Dmitrevich Shostakovich -- English opera / Frederick Delius, Ralph Vaugham Williams, Gustav Holst, Rutland Boughton, William Walton, Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten, Owen Wingrave, Harrison Birtwistle, Oliver Knussen -- Czech opera -- Polish opera -- Hungarian opera -- Spanish opera -- American opera / Virgil Thomson, George Gershwin, Marc Blitzstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Philip Glass -- Argentinian opera / Alberto Ginastera -- Scandinavian opera / Carl August Nielsen, Aulis Sallinen.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Describes 300 of the world's great operas in detail with musical examples. Includes the dates, places and casts of the significant premieres of each work.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Definitive Kobbé's opera book.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Operas, Stories, plots, etc.
Opéras-- Histoires, intrigues, etc.
Führer.
Oper
Operas.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
782
.
1/3
Edition
19
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
MT95
Book number
.
K52
1987
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
LP
12200
System Code
rvk
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Kobbé, Gustav,1857-1918.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles,Earl of,1923-2011.