Twentieth Century Opera

Download or read book Twentieth Century Opera written by George Whitney Martin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). Martin provides a guide to opera that is sweeping in its scope, thorough in its detail, and authoritative in its commentary. He recalls a century of achievement in an art form that today enjoys unprecedented popularity and that has been generously enriched by challenging works in many cases yet to be fully recognized of the modern era.