Publication

2011 - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveoperafanaticethn0000benz
  • ISBN-100226043401
  • ISBN-100226043428
  • ISBN-139780226043401
  • ISBN-139780226043425
and 7 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010034632
  • OCLC Control Number657223875
  • Better World Books9780226043401
  • Better World Books9780226043425
  • Better World BooksP8-CHP-356
  • Better World BooksW8-BZF-460
  • Open LibraryOL24412644M

Classifications

  • DDC306.4/848
  • LCCML1700 .B326 2011
  • LCCML1700.B326 2011

Description

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers are an intense lot, Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The opera fanatic: ethnography of an obsessionThe University of Chicago Press2011-01-01

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