The Opera Guide

THE OPERA GUIDE – 100 POPULAR COMPOSERS surveys the world’s greatest opera composers and their most popular works. Beginning with Monteverdi, who wrote the first important operas, they range through the repertory up to today’s ground-breaking works by Philip Glass, George Benjamin and other living composers.  As David Pountney explains in his foreword, opera has steadily grown over the last 400 years and is now more popular and more diverse than ever before. This unique guide offers you inf