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The Operagoer's Guide: One Hundred Stories and Commentaries.(Review)(Brief Article)
The Operagoer's Guide: One Hundred Stories and Commentaries by M. Owen Lee Amadeus Press, 233 pp. $12.95
Father Owen Lee, familiar as a commentator on the Texaco--Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, presents a compact guide to 100 operas, modeled on earlier short guides, including Felix Mendelssohn's 1913 The Story of a Hundred Operas. Mendelssohn's book was designed to fit "Handily in milady's handbag." The current work is about twice the size but still quite portable, aimed at "the twentieth-century operagoer." Lee sensibly suggests that audiences in this age of supertitles can do with less plot and more background information, and he has chosen his selections to reflect current trends in programming.
His volume may not fit in an evening bag, but its entertaining and informative text is worth its weight in gold. Most of the synopses are succinct, comprehensible and often irreverently amusing. Some suffer from space constraints: occasionally, ...
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