# The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera

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- Authors: [Amanda Holden](https://www.bookquiver.com/amanda-holden)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-06-30

## Description

This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today - ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.

## Editions

### The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-682-5
- Pages: 608
- Published: 2005-06-30
- Language: en_GB