Opera
Subtitle: the great composers and their masterworks
By: Joyce Bourne ; preface by Lord Harewood ; foreword by Bryn Terfel
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781845332754
Subjects: Opera; Composers; Operas; Biography; Stories, plots
Other titles: Great composers and their masterworks
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The development of opera through the ages; title: Voices and singers; title: The Baroque era. Claudio Monteverdi ; (Pietro) Francesco Cavalli ; Henry Purcell ; Jean-Philippe Rameau ; George Frideric Handel; title: The Classical era. Christoph Willibald von Gluck ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Haydn and the rest; title: The Romantic era. Gioachino Rossini ; Gaetano Donizetti ; Vincenzo Bellini ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Richard Wagner ; Giacomo Meyerbeer ; Jacques Offenbach ; Hector Berlioz ; Charles Gounod ; (Charles) Camille Saint-Saëns ; Georges Bizet ; Jules Massenet ; Mikhail Glinka ; Modest Musorgsky ; Pyotr Tchaikovsky ; Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov ; Bedřich Smetana; title: The late Romantics. Pietro Mascagni ; Ruggero Leoncavallo ; Giacomo Puccini ; Engelbert Humperdinck ; Richard Strauss ; (Achille-)Claude Debussy ; Leoš Janáček ; The rest of the late Romantics; title: 20th century and beyond. Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Kurt Weill ; Hans Werne Henze ; Igor Stravinsky ; Sergey Prokofiev ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Béla Bartók ; Maurice Ravel ; Ralph Vaughan Williams ; William Walton ; Michael Tippett ; Benjamin Britten ; Thea Musgrave ; Harrison Birtwhistle ; Peter Maxwell Davies ; Judith Weir ; Thomas Adès ; George Gershwin ; Samuel Barber ; Philip Glass ; John Adams ; More opera composers of the 20th century and beyond; title: The future of opera; title: Opera houses and festivals; title: Glossary.