num_pages: 5448
description: Incorporating a decade of musicological research the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality with contributions from over 1300 of the world's leading critics and scholars. A remarkable 11000 articles all fully cross-referenced create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference. Indeed every aspect of this varied art form is composers conductors directors performers librettists literary sources cities and countries operatic historians and opera genres and terminology.
language: English
title: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
publisher: Oxford University Press