The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is anencyclopedia ofopera. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes.[1][2]
The dictionary was first published in 1992 byMacmillan Reference, London, and edited byStanley Sadie. Christina Bashford was the managing editor.[3] While some entries were based on their equivalent entry inThe New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, most were specially commissioned.[4] The work contains contributions from over 1,300 scholars, with 11,000 articles in total, covering over 2,900 composers and 1,800 operas.[5] The operas discussed range from the earliest operas in 16th century Italy to the 1992Philip Glass workThe Voyage.[3]
The final volume includes four appendices: an index of principal role names in 850 notable operas; an index ofincipits ofarias andensembles (first line only, no musical examples); a list of contributors; and illustration acknowledgements.[6][7]
In 1997, the dictionary was acquired byOxford University Press and reprinted.[8][9] The dictionary was originally available online in a web version of its original form[10] but has now been merged as part of Oxford's Grove Music Online which comprises the range of Grove Dictionary titles with some ongoing revisions.[11]
^Fairtile, Linda B. (Fall 2003). "Reviewed work(s):The New Grove Dictionary of Music Online by Laura Macy".Journal of the American Musicological Society.56 (3):748–754.doi:10.1525/jams.2003.56.3.748.JSTOR3128793.
^"Grove Music Online".Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. RetrievedSeptember 1, 2024.
