Kratkij kurs opernogo bezumija

The book is in Russian.
A course including 21 essays will help schoolchildren and students, professionals and amateurs in learning the history of opera. The author's emotional approach to what is usually explained dryly in books on musical literature can be viewed both as a textbook and as a pleasant reading. The author has his own point of view on interaction of music and lyrics throughout four hundred years of opera history. In the book you will find essays on contemporary opera direction, a chronology of opera premieres.