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The Faber Book of Opera
Edited by Tom Sutcliffe This is a fascinating compendium of essays, letters, reviews, theories and fictional extracts that discuss, digest and delight in the world of opera. The history of opera is not just that of the musical masterpieces written during the last 400 years, it's the record of what people thought about the process, what the composers were trying to do, what went wrong in performance and what went right. Controversial music critic and author of Believing in Opera, Tom Sutcliffe covers the written record of opera in theory, in practice, in review and in fiction,
'Tom Sutcliffe has brought out very well the whole course of the opera's development, its technical arguments and achievements ' David Pryce-Jones, The Spectator
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