Handbuch der Oper

Handbuch der Oper

GERMAN TEXT

This authoritative reference work for connoisseurs, practitioners and enthusiasts combines academic reliability, practical orientation and readability.  Each work is accompanied by information on the cast, duration, orchestration, libretto, plot, historical background and stylistic position.

- The current opera repertoire in around 340 detailed descriptions of works
- From the early Baroque to the present day
- Supplemented by 22 operetta portraits
- Index of specialised roles, titles, composers and librettists

In addition to the opera texts, Robert Maschka presents a selection of popular and important highlights of the operetta repertoire on around 60 pages. The proven form of presentation of the "Handbook of Opera", focussing on the respective works, is transferred to the operettas.

The operetta has always been a beloved child on the smaller theatre stages and has also long since arrived at the state theatres. This is because musical theatre reaches anarchic top form with rousing vitality when propriety and conventions are taken to task and overridden in operetta.