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Covers in detail more than 3,500 English-texted works and includes masques, ballad operas, operettas, musical theater, as well as the standard operatic fare.

Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations A Brief History of English Opera Operas in English, A-Z Appendix 1: Composers Appendix 2: Librettists Appendix 3: Authors and Sources Appendix 4: Chronology Selected Bibliography Index of Characters Index of Performers

About the Author

MARGARET ROSS GRIFFEL is a production editor at Columbia University's Office of Publications, as well as an editorial consultant for several publishers. Dr. Griffel is the author of a companion volume, Operas in German (Greenwood, 1990), and has served as editor and compiler of the G. Schirmer orchestral and opera catalogs, consulting editor for the Schirmer History of Music, contributor to The New Oxford History of Music, and music production editor for Garland Publishing.

Reviews

?[G]riffel's directory to approximately thirty-five hundred works is a real eye-opener....Any one of these indexes or appendixes would make this work a significant resource for music libraries, and the one/two item bibliographies (primarily contemporary reviews) with each entry raise Griffel far above numerous other opera guidebooks....For range and depth, however, no single work available approaches Griffel....Highly recommended for all music collections...?-Reference & User Services Quarterly

?An exceptionally useful reference tool, it defines pieces of some of the greatest operas made.?-Today's Librarian

?Griffel's fascinating dictionary's 3,500 entries give details of the composers, librettos, date of first performance, plot, reviews, writings about opera, location of manuscript scores and librettos, score and libretto publication, discography, and videos....this indispensable work should have a lengthy shelf life. Highly recommended.?-Choice

?This scholarly and interesting volume is now the standard reference work in its field.?-American Reference Books Annual

"�G�riffel's directory to approximately thirty-five hundred works is a real eye-opener....Any one of these indexes or appendixes would make this work a significant resource for music libraries, and the one/two item bibliographies (primarily contemporary reviews) with each entry raise Griffel far above numerous other opera guidebooks....For range and depth, however, no single work available approaches Griffel....Highly recommended for all music collections..."-Reference & User Services Quarterly

"An exceptionally useful reference tool, it defines pieces of some of the greatest operas made."-Today's Librarian

"Griffel's fascinating dictionary's 3,500 entries give details of the composers, librettos, date of first performance, plot, reviews, writings about opera, location of manuscript scores and librettos, score and libretto publication, discography, and videos....this indispensable work should have a lengthy shelf life. Highly recommended."-Choice

"This scholarly and interesting volume is now the standard reference work in its field."-American Reference Books Annual

"[G]riffel's directory to approximately thirty-five hundred works is a real eye-opener....Any one of these indexes or appendixes would make this work a significant resource for music libraries, and the one/two item bibliographies (primarily contemporary reviews) with each entry raise Griffel far above numerous other opera guidebooks....For range and depth, however, no single work available approaches Griffel....Highly recommended for all music collections..."-Reference & User Services Quarterly