Tables of Contents for Opera
CHAPTER ONE -- THE BIRTH OF OPERA: MONTEVERDI TO PURCELL
1
32
List of operas covered in Chapter 1
1
6
Pier Francesco Cavalli
15
5
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
24
2
CHAPTER TWO -- BAROQUE OPERA: VIVALDI TO HANDEL
33
34
List of operas covered in Chapter 2
33
6
Georg-Philipp Telemann
52
1
George Frideric Handel
53
10
CHAPTER THREE -- THE REFORMATION OF OPERA: GLUCK TO MOZART
67
38
List of operas covered in Chapter 3
67
3
Christoph Willibald Gluck
70
9
Wolfgang Amadee Mozart
88
17
CHAPTER FOUR -- THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
105
84
List of operas covered in Chapter 4
105
4
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu
117
2
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
119
2
Jacques Francois Halevy
126
1
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
135
1
CHAPTER FIVE -- VERDI, WAGNER AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES
189
128
List of operas covered in Chapter 5
189
4
Johann Strauss the Younger
254
4
Pyotr I1'yich Tchaikovsky
306
6
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
312
5
CHAPTER SIX -- OPERA IN TRANSITION: THE GENERATION OF PUCCINI, MASSENET AND DEBUSSY
317
54
List of operas covered in Chapter 6
317
4
Engelbert Humperdinck
364
3
CHAPTER SEVEN -- THE ERA OF MODERNISM
371
122
List of operas covered in Chapter 7
371
5
Ralph Vaughan Williams
476
3
CHAPTER EIGHT -- OPERA SINCE WORLS WAR II
493
94
List of operas covered in Chapter 8
493
4
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
511
2
Karlheinz Stockhausen
519
5
DIRECTORY OF SINGERS
587
26
DIRECTORY OF CONDUCTORS
613
10
DIRECTORY OF OPERA HOUSES
623
26