Have you had an interest in learning more about Opera? With your Santa Clara County Library Card, you get free access to The Oxford Handbook of Opera. This text captures the highly charged dynamic between opera and its audience, bringing the complexities of scholarship and the excitement of performance into the mainstream conversation. Fifty essays address an extensive range of topics, ranging from What is opera? to Divas and Divos to The Operatic Canon.
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