OPERA MISCELLANY

A fun engaging and entertaining collection of facts, figures and miscellany from opera etiquette to the role of goats in opera, bible characters to favourite foods of the leading sopranos, test you knowledge with your fellow enthusiasts. If you are an absolute beginner it is a potpourri of the sublime and the ridiculous. Find out which opera is set on a planet called Doris, what prompted Rossini to burst into tears on a boating outing, which opera singers have appeared with the Muppets, how many Spanish women were seduced by Don Giovanni and more. With foreword by Lesley Garrett for all opera buffs and bluffers. 182pp, line art.