Michael Rose

Michael Rose is a musician and writer living in London. He is the author of Berlioz Remembered and the coauthor of Words about Music with John Amis. He wrote the commentary for Erich Auerbach’s Images of Music, has been a contributor to numerous publications including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and was for sixteen years the joint author with the late Hanns Hammelmann of the BBC radio series The Birth of an Opera.

Michael Rose

Michael Rose is a musician and writer living in London. He is the author of Berlioz Remembered and the coauthor of Words about Music with John Amis. He wrote the commentary for Erich Auerbach’s Images of Music, has been a contributor to numerous publications including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and was for sixteen years the joint author with the late Hanns Hammelmann of the BBC radio series The Birth of an Opera.

Books by Michael Rose

  • The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

    Michael Rose

    Hardback, 2013

    The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition.
  • The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck

    Michael Rose

    E Book, 2013

    The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition.
  • The Bread Bible

    Rose Levy Beranbaum, Alan Witschonke, Michael Batterberry

    Hardback, 2003

    Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Best Bread Book
  • The Bread Bible

    Rose Levy Beranbaum, Alan Witschonke, Michael Batterberry

    E Book, 2013

    Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Best Bread Book