Opera reading list

Adam, Nicky, ed., Who's Who in British Opera, Aldershot: Hants.,Scolar Press, 1993

Anderson, J.A., Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1989

Boyden, Matthew, The Rough Guide to Opera, 3rd edn., London: Rough Guides, 2002

Brook, Stephen, ed., Opera: A Penguin Anthology, London: Penguin,1996

Charlton, David, The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Gilbert, Susie, and Shir, Jay, A Tale of Four Houses: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met Since 1945, London, HarperCollins, 2003

Grout, Donald Jay, A Short History of Opera, New York: Columbia University Press, c2003

Harewood, Earl of, and Peattie, Andrew, The New Kobbé’s Opera Book, 11th edn. London, Ebury, 2000

Holden, Amanda, ed., The Penguin Opera Guide, London: Viking, 1993

Nice, David, The Illustrated Story of Opera, London, Little, Brown,1994

Nicholas, Jeremy, A Beginners Guide to Opera,London: Ebury Press in association with Channel Four Television Company Ltd. 1993

Parker, Roger, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994

Price, Curtis Alexander, Milhous, Judith, Hume, Robert D. and Dideriksen,Gabriella, Italian Opera in the Late Eighteenth-Century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995-2001

Sadie, Stanley, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera, London: Flame Tree, 2004

Smith, Marian Elizabeth, Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000

Sutcliffe, Tom, The Faber Book of Opera, London: Faber, 2000

Tooley, John, In house: Covent Garden 50 Years of Opera and Ballet, London: Faber, 1999

Warrack, John, and West, Ewan, The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992

Waugh, Alexander, Opera: A New Way of Listening, London, De Agostini Editions, 1996

Webber, Christopher, The Zarzuela Companion, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecow Press, 2002