Sadie, Stanley

Over 10,000 entries covering composers, performers, terms, instruments, and titles of musical works.

Provides full plot synopses, cast lists, singers, composers, and recordings of over 250 operas performed over the last twenty-five years.

Contains entries that provide information about music and musicians, featuring biographical essays on composers, performers, scholars, patrons, and others who have influenced music; and covering terminology, genres and forms, instruments, institutions, aesthetics, and other topics. Arranged alphabetically from A to Aristotle.