Before buying the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, make sure your back is sound enough to lift it.

New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol 2, p. 706.

Coverage here compares to about 1,800 titles in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol 1, p.1004.

New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol 4, p.1154.

But the recently published New Grove Dictionary of Opera (four volumes, $850) is, in this respect, thoroughly nonoperatic.

(He summarizes it in the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.)

For years, most reference works, including the authoritative New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), gave her birth date as April 17, 1935.

Le' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed.

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes).