The books I use most often:
D. Ralph Appelman: THE SCIENCE OF VOCAL PEDGAGOGY
Martial Singher: AN INTERPRETIVE GUIDE TO OPERA ARIAS
Jerome Hines: GREAT SINGERS ON GREAT SINGING
Nicholas Ivor Martin: THE DA CAPO GUIDE TO OPERA
Sir Denis Forman: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Thomas Grubb: SINGING IN FRENCH
Jan Piatak: RUSSIAN SONGS AND ARIAS
Boris Goldovsky: BRINGING OPERA TO LIFE
Pierre Bernac: THE INTERPRETATION OF FRENCH SONG
Evelina Colorni: SINGERS' ITALIAN
Richard Miller: THE STRUCTURE OF SINGING
Boris Goldovsky: BRINGING SOPRANO ARIAS TO LIFE
Lotte Lehmann: MORE THAN SINGING
Nico Castel: A SINGER'S MANUAL OF SPANISH LYRIC DICTION
William Odom: GERMAN FOR SINGERS
Richard Cox: SINGER'S MANUAL OF FRENCH AND GERMAN DICTION
501 GERMAN VERBS, 501 FRENCH VERBS, 501 ITALIAN VERBS, 501 RUSSIAN VERBS, 501 SPANISH VERBS
Harper Collins Sansone Italian-English/English-Italian Dictionary
Langenscheidt's Condensed Muret-Sanders German Dictionary, Vol. I (German-English)
Harper Collins Robert French-English/English-French Dictionary
University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary
David Mackay English Russian/Russian English Dictionary
Penguin Russian Dictionary
(Yes - I find I do need two Russian dictionaries - there are words in the one that aren't in the other, and vice versa; I used to also have the Romanoff's, but found that it had fewer words than either of the others; the Mackay also has phonetic, although not IPA, pronunciations of all words).
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