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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781804470138
Large coffee-table paperback • 80pp • £15
195 mm x 260 mm
27/09/22
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Opera Obscura

A Wholly Improbable Selection of Impossible Opera

Peter Kent

Illustrated by Peter Kent

Contains 90 full-colour illustrations

ISBN: 9781804470138
Large coffee-table paperback • 80pp
Published 27 September 2022

£15.00

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Many musical and theatrical traditions walk the very narrow path between the sublime and the ridiculous, but perhaps none more so than opera, which, while maintaining an elegant reputation, makes a show out of princes making romantic speeches to soft fruit, noses being accidentally cut off and woodpeckers performing wedding ceremonies.

Opera Obscura is a beautifully illustrated collection that contributes twenty-five brand new impossibly madcap operas to the canon of magnificent absurdities, along with the intricate blueprints for several incredible opera houses and information on of a whole range of almost unbelievably incredible instruments.

About the author

Peter Kent is the author and illustrator of almost thirty books. After a short spell at art school, he honed his illustration technique as a history teacher, bringing eras to life on the blackboard. Peter lives in Norwich, which, apart from naming a hospital after Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, has yet to make its name in the operatic world.

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