The Oxford illustrated history of opera
By: edited by Roger Parker.
Contributors: Parker, Roger, 1951-
Edition: [1st Oxford University Press paperback ed.]
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
Subjects: Opera; Opera -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Illustrated history of opera
Notes: Originally published 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-508) and index.
Table of contents: title: The; title: seventeenth century -- Tim Carter -- The; title: eighteenth century : serious opera ; The eighteenth century : comic opera -- Thomas Bauman -- The; title: nineteenth century : France -- David Charlton -- The; title: nineteenth century : Italy -- William Ashbrook -- The; title: nineteenth century : Germany -- Barry Millington; title: Russian, Czech, Polish, and Hungarian opera to 1900 -- John Tyrrell -- The; title: twentieth century : to 1945 ;; title: The twentieth century : 1945 to the present day -- Paul Griffiths -- The; title: staging of opera -- Roger Savage; title: Opera singers -- William Ashbrook; title: Opera as a social occasion-- John Rosselli.