Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, provides a compendium of self-standing short guides to 25 of the world's greatest and most popular operas
Michael Steen OBE studied at the Royal College of Music, and has been chairman of both the RCM Society and the Friends of the V&A.
Great Operas will serve its target audience well: the plot
summaries are detailed and clear, text boxes give helpful
background information about librettists, sources and historical
references, and there are plenty of good anecdotes about composers
and singers.
*The Times Literary Supplement*
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