Our list of some of the best Opera books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera (1900)
- A History of Opera (2015)
- The Phantom of the Opera (Akasha Classic) (2008)
- A Night at the Opera: An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings (Modern Library (Paperback)) (1998)
- Orion Awakened: An Intergalactic Space Opera Adventure (Orion Colony) (2019)
- The 4 x 4 Diet: 4 Key Foods, 4-Minute Workouts, Four Weeks to the Body You Want (2018)
- The Last Reaper: An Intergalactic Space Opera Adventure (2019)
- Opera: A History in Documents (2002)
- Eyewitness Companions: Opera (2006)
- 100 Great Operas And Their Stories: Act-By-Act Synopses (1989)
Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera (1900)
Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you’ve decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.
A History of Opera (2015)
“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”―Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries?
The Phantom of the Opera (Akasha Classic) (2008)
Experience for yourself the classic story of love, music, and murder which has captivated people for generations. When new managers take over the running of the Paris Opera House, they make light of warnings about a mysterious ghost who haunts the theater. But this Phantom is all too real, and attempts to ignore his demands have dangerous consequences. When a beautiful young singer becomes the object of fascination by both the Phantom and a handsome viscount, disaster is inevitable.
A Night at the Opera: An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings (Modern Library (Paperback)) (1998)
With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.
Orion Awakened: An Intergalactic Space Opera Adventure (Orion Colony) (2019)
An alien awakens from a long sleep.An impossible prophecy that cannot be ignored.Dean and his friends are trapped on a world they can barely comprehend with enemies on all sides and a growing need to survive. There’s more to this place than any of them could have dreamed.But what is the strange infection spreading across the forest, and where did it come from? Who or what is the Great Dawn?The world is full of secrets, and Dean Slade is at the center of it all.Time to discover the truth.
The 4 x 4 Diet: 4 Key Foods, 4-Minute Workouts, Four Weeks to the Body You Want (2018)
Celebrity trainer and former marine Erin Oprea’s motto is “lean and clean.” Her unique 4 x 4 diet shows you how to get clean by reducing the 4 major hitches in most diets: sugar, starch, sodium, and alcohol. She also tells you how to get lean, using her 4-minute tabata workouts: 8 repititions of 20 seconds of high-intensity moves, then 10 seconds of rest.
The Last Reaper: An Intergalactic Space Opera Adventure (2019)
When a high value scientist is taken hostage inside the galaxy’s most dangerous prison, Halek Cain is the only man for the job.The last remaining survivor of the Reaper program, Hal is an unstoppable force of fuel and madness.
Opera: A History in Documents (2002)
In Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a wide-ranging, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. A unique anthology of primary source material, this survey includes 115 chronologically organized selections–passages from private letters, public decrees, descriptions of first performances, portions of libretti, literary criticism and satire, newspaper reviews and articles, and poetry and fiction–from opera’s late Renaissance infancy through modern times.
Eyewitness Companions: Opera (2006)
The authors present a book featuring everything you need to know about opera.
100 Great Operas And Their Stories: Act-By-Act Synopses (1989)
An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written. From La Traviata to Aïda, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world’s best-loved operas, told in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. Written by noted opera authority Henry W.
Best Opera Books: The Ultimate List
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some opera books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
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ID: 1016946, Publisher: Gulf Professional Pub, Year: [2011], Size: 9 Mb, Format: pdf
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Author(s): Anonymous
ID: 1611508, Publisher: , Year: [1986?], Size: 538 Kb, Format: pdf
Development Co-Operation Reviews : No. 35: Ireland.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2147923, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Set. 1999, Size: 542 Kb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are truly record-breakers according to USA Today, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.