num_pages: 593
description: This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed today - ranging from Britten to Massenet, and from Mozart to Wagner. Composer biographies are accompanied by informed articles on individual operas, offering plot synopses, musical analysis and general commentary.
language: English
title: The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
titlecomplete: The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Penguin Books