Opera

An opera usa nga porma hin arte kun diin an mga magkaranta ngan musikero nagbubuhat hin usa ka drama nga kinakanta.

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Panguna nga pagkukuhaan
 Apel, Willi, ed. (1969). Harvard Dictionary of Music, Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. SBN 674375017.
 Cooke, Mervyn (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-78009-8. See also Google Books partial preview. Accessed 3 Oktubre 2009.
Silke Leopold, "The Idea of National Opera, c. 1800", United and Diversity in European Culture c. 1800, ed. Tim Blanning and Hagen Schulze (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 19–34.
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (1992), 5,448 pages, is the best, and by far the largest, general reference in the English language. ISBN 0-333-73432-7 and ISBN 1-56159-228-5
The Viking Opera Guide, edited by Amanda Holden (1994), 1,328 pages, ISBN 0-670-81292-7
The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera, ed. Roger Parker (1994)
The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
Opera, the Rough Guide, by Matthew Boyden et al. (1997), 672 pages, ISBN 1-85828-138-5
Opera: A Concise History, by Leslie Orrey and Rodney Milnes, World of Art, Thames & Hudson

Iba nga pagkukuhaan
DiGaetani, John Louis: An Invitation to the Opera, Anchor Books, 1986/91. ISBN 0-385-26339-2.
Dorschel, Andreas, 'The Paradox of Opera', The Cambridge Quarterly 30 (2001), no. 4, pp. 283–306. ISSN (printed): 0008-199X. ISSN (electronic): 1471-6836. Discusses the aesthetics of opera.
MacMurray, Jessica M. and Allison Brewster Franzetti: The Book of 101 Opera Librettos: Complete Original Language Texts with English Translations, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1996. ISBN 978-1-884822-79-7
Rous, Samuel Holland (1919). The Victrola Book of the Opera. Stories of The Operas with Illustrations.... Camden, New Jersey, U. S. A.: Victor Talking Machine Company. View at Internet Archive.
Simon, Henry W.: A Treasury of Grand Opera, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1946.

Bibliograpiya
Howard Mayer Brown, "Opera", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musician. 2001. Oxford University Press
"Louis II", Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/348741/Louis-II
"Opera", Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/429776/opera

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Mga sumpay ha gawas

Operabase – Comprehensive opera performances database
StageAgent – synopses & character descriptions for most major operas
What's it about? – Opera plot summaries 
Vocabulaire de l'Opéra  
OperaGlass, a resource at Stanford University
HistoricOpera – historic operatic images
"America's Opera Boom"  By Jonathan Leaf, The American, July/August 2007 Issue
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