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Selection of Books listing Operas Available on Videocassette
"encyclopedic coverage" - Peter M. Nichols, The New York Times
"a monumental achievement…fascinating" - Richard Fawkes. Opera Now
"a highly enjoyable reference work"- Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
"a definitive and long overdue reference source" - Anthony Slide, Classic Images
Opera on Screen is a guide to the thousands of films and videos featuring operas and opera singers made in the last century. It describes what was filmed and what it is possible to view and is organized alphabetically with entries on operas, operettas, zarzuelas, singers, composers, writers, conductors and subjects. The net is wide and includes not only opera singers but singers whose only opera career was on the movie screen, imaginary operas composed for the cinema and silent opera films. This is the most comprehenisve book of its kind ever produced and actually fun to read.
Opera on Screen
by Marcia J. Citron
List Price: $35.00
Hardcover - 336 pages (May
2000)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300081588 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 8.58 x
5.83
Gian
Carlo Menotti on Screen : Opera, Dance and Choral Works on Film,
Television and Video
by Ken Wlaschin
List Price: $45.00
Hardcover (August 1999)
McFarland & Company; ISBN: 0786406089

The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera

Opera Singers in Recital, Concert, and Feature Film : A Mediagraphy (Music
Reference Collection, No. 73)
by Sharon G. Almquist (Compiler)
List Price: $85.00
Library Binding - 392 pages
(January 1999)
Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN: 0313295921 ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.30 x 9.54 x 6.40
Cinema's
Illusions, Opera's Allure : The Operatic Impulse in Film
by David P. Schroeder
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This item will be published in May 2002. You may order it now and we will
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it arrives.
Hardcover (May 2002)
ISBN: 0826413927
Giacomo
Puccini (20th-Century Composers Series) by Conrad Wilson
Adelina
Patti : Queen of Hearts (Opera Biography, No 4) by John Frederick Cone
American
Aria : From Farm Boy to Opera Star
by Sherrill Milnes, Dennis McGovern
Hardcover - 300 pages (October 1998)
Schirmer Books; ISBN: 0028647394 ; Dimensions (in inches):
0.92 x 9.59 x 6.47
List Price: $30.00
Fifty-Five Years in Five Acts : My Life in Opera
by Astrid Varnay, Donald Arthur
List Price: $30.00
Hardcover - 352 pages (November
2000)
Northeastern Univ Pr; ISBN: 1555534554 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.48 x
9.48 x 6.38
100
Great Operas and Their Stories by Henry W. Simon
A-Z
of Opera by Mary Hamilton
Tosca's Rome : The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective
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