Paul Gruber, Editor

The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video

For anyone trying to select the best from the vast array of operas on video.

In this latest handbook from the Metropolitan Opera, fourteen opera mavens evaluate performances of over 150 of the best-loved operas. The new Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video enables opera lovers to choose widely from the hundreds of available video recordings by reading expert comparative reviews and by following explicit, trustworthy recommendations. Everyone who enjoyed the successful Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera will love this companion volume, published jointly by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and W. W. Norton.

Contributors to this useful collection are Bruce Burroughs, Jon Alan Conrad, Peter G. Davis, Cori Ellison, Shirley Flemming, London Green, David Hamilton, Albert Innaurato, C. J. Luten, Conrad L. Osborne, Bridget Paolucci, Harvey E. Phillips, Harlow Robinson, and Richard Traubner.