Overview
The essential book for every opera enthusiast, Double the size of the original 1982 edition, this vastly expanded version of The Ultimate Opera Quiz Book includes more than 2,500 questions that will tickle your timpani and probe your mastery of the repertoire. Kenn Harris, opera reviewer and expert, tests readers' knowledge of operas, their plots and characters, their composers, and the men and women who sing them - in the most fascinating operatic challenge ever!
In addition to the quizzes, Harris offers up scandalous anecdotes throughout, taking you onstage and behind the scenes with temperamental tenors, demented divas, memorable debuts, forgettable farewells, notorious home wreckers, mad queens, unfaithful servants, star-crossed lovers, high crimes and miscues, death scenes, arias and love duets, tyrannical conductors, impecunious composers, and backstage fiascoes!