COGENT AND INTERESTING

Dennis Marks' 'The Knowledge - Opera',
read by RODERIC DUNNETT

In Quadrille Publishing's handy series The Knowledge, this is a pocket book to treasure, and to cherish all the more as it must have been completed months or even weeks before Dennis Marks' early and much regretted death in 2015.

It is written by someone who knew opera inside out, and with the shrewdness of one who not only served as General Director of English National Opera, but before that was head of music at the BBC.

The book covers an impressively wide range...