Operas in English A Dictionary

Subjects:

• The Arts » Opera
• The Arts » Music (General)

Reviews:

• Griffel's fascinating dictionary's 3,500 entries give details of the composers, librettos, date of first performance, plot, reviews, writings about opera, location of manuscript scores and librettos, score and libretto publication, discography, and videos....this indispensable work should have a lengthy shelf life. Highly recommended.
  —Choice
• This scholarly and interesting volume is now the standard reference work in its field.
  —American Reference Books Annual
• An exceptionally useful reference tool, it defines pieces of some of the greatest operas made.
  —Today's Librarian
• [G]riffel's directory to approximately thirty-five hundred works is a real eye-opener....Any one of these indexes or appendixes would make this work a significant resource for music libraries, and the one/two item bibliographies (primarily contemporary reviews) with each entry raise Griffel far above numerous other opera guidebooks....For range and depth, however, no single work available approaches Griffel....Highly recommended for all music collections...
  —Reference & User Services Quarterly

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• A Brief History of English Opera
• Operas in English, A-Z
• Appendix 1: Composers
• Appendix 2: Librettists
• Appendix 3: Authors and Sources
• Appendix 4: Chronology
• Selected Bibliography
• Index of Characters
• Index of Performers