Opera for everyone
Subtitle: a historic, social, artistic, literary, and musical study
By: Jean Grundy Fanelli
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Opera
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-258) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : About opera; title: Before opera; title: The first operas; title: Opera in Mantua; title: Roman opera : serious and comic; title: Opera in Venice; title: From Venice to France; title: Opera abroad; title: The late baroque; title: Comic opera; title: Embers of opera seria; title: Mozart and Da Ponte; title: Rossini; title: Romanticism : from France to Germany; title: Italian bel canto, 1830-35; title: Romanticism with patriotic feeling; title: Grand opéra and counterbalance; title: Romantic Wagner; title: Italian gloom and despair; title: France after the mid-century; title: Grand opera and music drama; title: Oriental influence; title: Realism and the Giovane scuola; title: Clinging to melody; title: Discordant times; title: A reflection of one's country; title: At the millennium