The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas

This book gives a concise and scholarly account of Mozart's activities as a composer of operas. �It includes a biography, orientated toward the operas, an essay on Mozart's operatic contribution and style, a separate synopsis and historical account of each opera, and three essays which bind into narrative form the dictionary entries on librettists, interpreters and venues. �It is organized in an easy-to-read narrative, designed to make finding information on Mozart as easy as possible without sacrificing readability.