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Here is an excerpt of what The Good Opera Guide has to say about Cilea & rsquo;s Adriana Lecouvreur : & ldquo;The one about the star of stage and screen whose r

"The first guide to take a sensible decision of separating comments on the music (serious and helpful) from descriptions of the plot (invariably flippant and of

Provides biographical sketches for nearly 850 composers along with articles on approximately 2,000 works.

'It is impossible to imagine a world in which Wagner never happened. - He was at the same time a horror, a phenomenon and a genius. But he was Wagner and he has

“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman thr