A history of opera / Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker.

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Main Author: Abbate, Carolyn
Other Authors: Parker, Roger, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Opera's first centennial
  • Opera seria
  • Discipline
  • Opera buffa and Mozart's line of beauty
  • Singing and speaking before 1800
  • The German problem
  • Rossini and transition
  • The tenor comes of age
  • Young Verdi
  • Grand opera
  • Young Wagner
  • Opéra comique, the crucible
  • Old Wagner
  • Verdi : older still
  • Realism and clamour
  • Turning point
  • Modern speech
  • We are alone in the forest.