| Description |
x, 390 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-335) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Roger Parker -- 1. The Seventeenth Century / Tim Carter -- 2. The Eighteenth Century: Serious Opera / Thomas Bauman -- 3. The Eighteenth Century: Comic Opera / Thomas Bauman -- 4. The Nineteenth Century: France / David Charlton -- 5. The Nineteenth Century: Italy / William Ashbrook -- 6. The Nineteenth Century: Germany / Barry Millington -- 7. Russian, Czech, Polish, and Hungarian Opera to 1900 / John Tyrrell -- 8. The Twentieth Century: To 1945 / Paul Griffiths -- 9. The Twentieth Century: 1945 to the Present Day / Paul Griffiths -- 10. The Staging of Opera / Roger Savage -- 11. Opera Singers / William Ashbrook -- 12. Opera as a Social Occasion / John Rosselli -- Chronology / Mary Ann Smart. |
| Subject |
Opera.
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| Added Author |
Parker, Roger, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0192840282 |
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9780192840288 |
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