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OPERA

Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. The drama is presented using the typical elements of theater such as scenery, costumes, and acting. However, the words of the opera, or libretto, are sung rather than spoken. The singers are accompanied by a musical ensemble ranging from a small instrumental ensemble to a full symphonic orchestra.

Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the dialogue and plot-driving passages often sung in a non-melodic style characteristic of opera, and aria, during which the movement of the plot often stops and the music and the singers focus on one topic using full voice. Short sung passages are also referred to as arioso. Each type of singing is accompanied by musical instruments. www.wikpedia.org

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                                                 TITLE         AUTHOR PAGES FORMAT PRICE PURCHASE
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Plots and Music (used) Krehbiel, Henry 243 H $9.95
A Guide to Opera Recordings Mordden, Ethan 308 H $32.50
A History of the Royal Opera House Convent Garden 1732-1982 Saint, Andrew 128 P $11.95
A Jussi Bjorling Phonography 2nd Edition Henrysson, Harald 382 P $34.75
A Knight at the Opera (used) Bing, Rudolph 287 H $8.50
And so I Sing: African-American Divas of Opera and Concert Story, Rosalyn 236 P $11.95
Anthems for Choirs 1: Fifty Anthems for Mixed Voides Jackson, Francis 223 P $11.95
Autonomy and Mercy: Reflections on Mozart's Operas Nagel, Ivan 148 H $27.25
Benjamin Britten: His Life and Opera White, Eric 322 P $15.95
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Opera and Operetta Anderson, James 691 H $30.95
Bloomsbury Good CD Guide Bloomsbury 244 H $23.50
Brecht in Context Willett, John 274 H $23.50
Bubbles: A Self Portrait (used) Sills, Beverly 240 H $8.95
Cambridge Opera Handbooks: Idomeneo Mozart 187 P $18.95
Cambridge Opera Handbooks: La Clemenza di Tito Mozart 181 P $16.75
Cambridge Opera Handbooks: Orfeo Gluck 143 P $20.50
Carmen: London Coliseum 1970 Show Guide Bizet, Georges 30 P $2.95
Carmina Burana (Used) Orff, Carl 47 P $2.95
Caruso: An Illustrated Life Greenfeld, Howard 192 H $20.95
Chaliapin (used) Gorky, Maxim 320 P $8.50
Complete Operas of Verdi Osborne, Charles 472 P $13.95
Das Rheingold: Original Text and English Translation (used) Wagner, Richard 60 P $3.25
Der Protagonist Weill, Kurt 24 P $9.95
Deutsche Oper am Rhein 1982/83 (German) (used) Not Listed 40 P $4.95
Die Nase: Libretti (German) Shostakowitsch, Dimitri 44 P $10.95
Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art Matheopoulos, Helena 333 H $30.95
Dover Opera Libretto: Aida Verdi 85 P $4.95
Dover Opera Libretto: Carmer Bizet 90 P $4.95
Dover Opera Libretto: Don Giovanni Mozart 121 P $4.95
Dover Opera Libretto: Rigoletto Verdi 77 P $4.95
English National Opera Guide 21: The Valkyrie Wagner 112 P $11.50
English National Opera Guide 23: The Force of Destiny Verdi 112 P $9.25
English National Opera Guide 3: The Magic Flute Mozart 128 P $11.50
English National Opera Guide 31: Twilight of the Gods Wagner 128 P $9.95
English National Opera Guide 32: Simon Boccanegra Verdi 96 P $9.25
English National Opera Guide 34: Parsifal Wagner 128 P $11.50
English National Opera Guide 39: Tannhauser Wagner 96 P $11.50
English National Opera Guide 40: A Masked Ball Verdi 96 P $11.50
English National Opera Guide 8: Der Rosenkavalier Strauss, R. 128 P $9.25
Eugene Onegin Metropolitan Opera Libretto (Used) Tchaikovsky, P. 60 P $3.95
Faust: Opera in Five Acts (Used) Counod, Charles 20 P $3.95
Figaro Here, Figaro There: Pavilion Opera Stockdale, Freddie 218 H $8.50
First Intermissions: 21 Great Operas Explored Lee, M. 248 H $23.50
Four Centuries of Opera (used) Turner, J. 132 P $11.50
French Chansons of the 16th Century Bernstein, Jane 218 H $11.95
Galina: A Russian Story Vishnevskaya, Galina 519 P $12.50
Hansel and Gretel: Libretto Humperdinck, E. 42 P $10.95
How to be tremendously Tuned into Opera (used) Parrott, E. 230 P $7.95
King Priam (Used) Tippett, Michael 32 P $2.5
Khovanshchina Libretto (Used) Mussorgsky, Modest 32 P $3.95
Kobbe's Illustrated Opera Book: 32 of the World's Best Loved Operas Harewood, Earl 205 H $30.95
La Rondine: Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts Puccini, Giacomo 55 P $10.95
La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera: 1597-Present Bagnoli, Giorgio 398 H $53.50
Lanza: His tragic Life (used) Strait, Raymond 181 H $6.95
Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio Stendahl 370 P $9.25
Lofti Mansouri: An Operatic Life Mansouri, Lofti 122 H $16.50
Lulu: Opera in 3 Acts Berg, Alban 113 P $13.95
Madam Butterfly (Used) Puccini, Giacomo 128 P $3.95
Metropolitan Book of the Opera: Stories of 191 Operas (Used) Sanborn, Pitts 396 H $8.50
Mozart on the Stage Liebner, Janos 252 H $15.50
Music by Philip Glass Glass, Philip 222 P $13.95
New York City Opera (Used) Sokol, Martin 560 H $11.95
Opera John, Nicholas 64 P $10.95
Opera Capell, Richard 132 H $17.50
Opera Anecdotes Mordden, Ethan 267 H $24.50
Opera in Crisis: Tradition, Present, Future (used) Pleasants, Henry 128 H $12.95
Opera on CD 1994 Haylock, Julian 208 P $11.95
Opera People (used) Steiner, Christian 112 H $11.95
Opera: An Informal Guide Stroff, Stephen 205 P $14.50
Opera: Or the Undoing of Women Clement, Catherine 201 P $15.95
Operetta: A Theatrical History Traubner, Richard 459 P $15.95
Pandora's Box (Lulu) Pabst. G. 136 P $6.95
Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope 1870-1925 Brody, Elaine 359 H $15.95
Parsifal (Used) Wagner, Richard 55 P $3.95
Piaf (used) Lange, Monique 256 H $11.50
Placido Domingo: My First Forty Years (used) Domingo, Placido 217 H $7.50
Previn Ruttencutter, Helen 231 H $6.95
Promise me You'll Sing Mud Wallace, Ian 240 P $15.25
Reading Opera Groos, Arthur 352 P $18.95
Romantic Opera and Literary Form Conrad, Peter 184 H $38.50
Scottish Opera 1982/1983 (used) Not Listed 184 P $4.95
Second Empire Opera: The Theatre Lyrique Paris 1851-1870 Walsh, T. 384 H $34.95
Selected Operas (used) Gilbert, W. 200 H $10.50
Singers of the Italian Opera Rosselli, John 272 H $40.95
Svoboda: Wagner Burian, Jarka 117 H $27.25
The Angel's Cry: Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera Poizat, Michel 220 H $24.50
The Castrati in Opera Heroit, Angus 243 H $31.95
The Dramatic Genius of Verdi: Studies of Selected Opera Godefroy, Vincent 287 H $13.95
The Fabulous World of Opera (used) Samachson, Dorothy 200 H $6.95
The Festival of Opera Simon, Henry 704 H $8.50
The Great Singers: From the Dawn of Opera to Caruso, Callas.. Pleasants, Henry 395 P $5.95
The Joan Sutherland Album (used) Sutherland, Joan 191 H $8.50
The Operas of Alban Berg: Volume 2 Berg, Alban 315 H $41.50
The Operas of Wagner: Published 1908 (used) Shaw, Byam 244 H $8.95
The Real Wagner (used) Sabor, Rudolph 382 P $5.50
The Savoy Operas (used) Gilbert, W. 698 H $9.95
The Storybook of Opera: Volume 1 Biscardi, Cyrus 192 H $20.50
The Threepenny Opera Brecht, Bertolt 110 P $7.50
The Unlikely Pioneer: Building Opera from Pacific Through the Praries Watmough, David 186 P $11.25
The Unlikely Pioneer: Building Opera from Pacific Through the Praries Watmough, David 186 H $16.50
Toscanini: An Intimate Portrait (Used) Chotzinoff, Samuel 148 H $5.95
When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History as it Ought to be Taught Barber, David 139 P $11.95
Zwolftontechnik Hauer, Josef 23 P