ABSTRACT
A valuable guide to locations of plots and other information on 2,900 stage works from all Western nations of all periods. The locations are in about 200 books in several languages. Since there are so many repeats of popular operas, a useful coding system is applied to show which sources have certain features (musical examples, illustrations, historical information, analysis). Works are listed by their original language, with cross-references from translated titles. The composer/title index is useful in itself for a quick look at the works that have represented, for the plot writers, the standard repertoire.
