How to Enjoy Opera, Paperback

John Snelson, Commissioning Editor at The Royal Opera House, explores how the music tells the story in opera. Aimed at newcomers as well as long-time fans, this book focuses on how to look and listen to any opera. The text covers many of the elements that composers and librettists employ to give enjoyment to audiences, in the hope that readers can gain greater enjoyment from future viewing and listening, too.

John Snelson is Commissioning Editor at the Royal Opera House. He studied music at the universities of Nottingham, Reading and Birmingham and has worked extensively in both music performance and publishing. He was a Senior Internal Editor for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition), to which he also contributed many articles.