Pocket Guide to Opera - Tapa blanda

A handy, readable and easy-to-use opera guide, containing entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar. Features include: Snapshot plot summaries; Easily understood background information; Straightforward pointers to help your appreciation of the music and production; Recommended recordings (CD, video and DVD); A brief over-view of the history of opera

Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at King's College, Cambridge. After further study as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, he has written several books including Prima Donna, Romantic Affinities, Paris Babylon, The Visitors and Arthur Hugh Clough. In 1997, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.He is currently opera critic of the Daily Telegraph and a member of the editorial board of Opera magazine. He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including The Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Harpers & Queen, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker.