The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

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Incorporating a decade of musicological research, the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality, with contributions from over 1,300 of the world's leading critics and scholars. A remarkable 11,000 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.