Binding: Hardback
Pages / Format: 958 - 24,5 x 18,0 cm

The definitive reference work for connoisseurs, practitioners and enthusiasts combines scientific reliability, practical orientation and readability.

For each work there is information about the roles, playing time, orchestration, libretto, plot, historical background and stylistic position.

• The current opera repertoire in around 340 detailed work descriptions
• From the early baroque to the most recent present
• Supplemented by 22 operetta portraits
• Index for the specialist roles, titles, composers and librettists

In addition to the opera texts, Robert Maschka presents a selection of popular and important highlights from the operetta repertoire on around 60 pages. The tried and tested form of presentation of the “Opera Handbook”, which focuses on the respective works, is transferred to the operettas.

The operetta was always a beloved child on the smaller theater stages and has long since arrived at the state theaters. Because musical theater reaches its anarchistic top form with rousing vitality when propriety and conventions are mocked and overridden in the operetta tone. There was previously a gap in the “Opera Handbook”, which has been tried and tested for decades, with regard to musical laughter theatre, but this has now been closed.