The Oxford illustrated history of opera
The history and social context of opera is explored by a group of leading British and American scholars in this volume. The core of the book is a historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.
Print Book, English, 2001
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001
xv, 541 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780192854452, 0192854453
1043906355
Introduction ; 1. The Seventeenth Century ; 2. The Eighteenth Century: Serious Opera ; 3. The Eighteenth Century: Comic Opera ; 4. The Nineteenth Century: France ; 5. The Nineteenth Century: Italy ; 6. The Nineteenth Century: Germany ; 7. Russian, Czech, Polish, and Hungarian Opera to 1900 ; 8. The Twentieth Century: to 1945 ; 9. The Twentieth Century: 1945 to the Present Day ; 10. The Staging of Opera ; 11. Opera Singers ; 12. Opera as a Social Event ; Further Reading ; Chronology ; Acknowledgements ; Index