Author(s): Laura Macy

Composers

Covering over 1500 singers from the origins of opera to the present day, this book is an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas, with more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers. The most comprehensive guide to opera singers ever produced. Review: Comment and opinion enliven the entries, the print is clear and the illustrations finely reproduced... An inexhaustible mine of information, it is also an engrossingly good read. John Steane, Gramophone Contents: Editor's Preface; Illustration Acknowledgements; Opera Singers A-Z; Index of singers by voice type; Index of singers by opera role premieres. Hardback 638pp h241mm x w164mm x s37mm 1215g 15 colour, 90 black and white illustrations