Table of Contents

Roger Parker: Introduction
1: Tim Carter: The Seventeenth Century
2: Thomas Bauman: The Eighteenth Century: Serious Opera
3: Thomas Bauman: The Eighteenth Century: Comic Opera
4: David Charlton: The Nineteenth Century: France
5: William Ashbrook: The Nineteenth Century: Italy
6: Barry Millington: The Nineteenth Century: Germany
7: John Tyrell: Russian, Czech, Polish, and Hungarian Opera to 1900
8: Paul Griffiths: The Twentieth Century: to 1945
9: Paul Griffiths: The Twentieth Century: 1945 to the Present Day
10: Roger Savage: The Staging of Opera
11: William Ashbrook: Opera Singers
12: John Roselli: Opera as a Social Event
Further Reading
Mary Ann Smart: Chronology
Acknowledgements
Index

About the Author

Roger Parker - editor.
Moved to a lectureship in Music at Oxford University, as a felllow of St Hugh's College -- having been Associate Professor of Music, at Cornell University. He has written extensively on Verdi, on nineteenth-century Italian opera, and is the founding co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.

Reviews

`lavishly illustrated volume'
Sunday Telegraph 30/12/01

`lavishly illustrated volume' Sunday Telegraph 30/12/01