The Opera Lover's Companion
The Opera Lover's Companion

Author: Charles Osborne

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9780300123739

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Written by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and more.

New Grove Book of Operas
New Grove Book of Operas

Author: Stanley Sadie

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 0195309073

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The world's defiinitive single volume of opera reference including: full plot synopses, cast lists, singers, composers, literary and social history, recordings, and much more. Covers over 250 operas performed over the last quarter-century, additional works selected for interest, merit, or historical significance, 64 pages of color plates, 100 black-and-white photographs, fully cross-referenced with indexes and a glossary.

The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea
The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea

Author: Luis de Góngora y Argote

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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This is a poetic translation of Luis Góngora y Argote's Polifemo y Galatea, a major work by a major poet of the Spanish Golden Age. The main body of this English version consists of prose paraphrases of the English poetic text and an analytical commentary that accompanies the actual poetic text it reproduces faithfully both content and the form of the ottava rima of the Spanish original.