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Tables of Contents for Opera
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INTRODUCTION
ix
CHAPTER ONE -- THE BIRTH OF OPERA: MONTEVERDI TO PURCELL
1
32
List of operas covered in Chapter 1
1
6
Claudio Monteverdi
7
8
Pier Francesco Cavalli
15
5
Jean-Baptiste Lully
20
4
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
24
2
John Blow
26
2
Henry Purcell
28
5
CHAPTER TWO -- BAROQUE OPERA: VIVALDI TO HANDEL
33
34
List of operas covered in Chapter 2
33
6
Antonio Vivalid
39
3
Giovanni Pergolesi
42
2
Andre Campra
44
2
Jean-Philippe Rameau
46
6
Georg-Philipp Telemann
52
1
George Frideric Handel
53
10
John Gay
63
4
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
Joseph Haydn
79
4
Giovanni Paisiello
83
1
Domenica Cimarosa
84
1
Antonio Salieri
85
3
Wolfgang Amadee Mozart
88
17
CHAPTER FOUR -- THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
105
84
List of operas covered in Chapter 4
105
4
Luigi Cherubini
109
2
Ludwig van Beethoven
111
5
Luigi Spontini
116
1
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu
117
2
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
119
2
Giacomo Meyerbeer
121
5
Jacques Francois Halevy
126
1
Hector Berlioz
127
8
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
135
1
Louis Spohr
136
2
Carl Maria von Weber
138
6
Heinrich Marschner
144
2
Franz Schubert
146
2
Albert Lortzing
148
1
Otto Nicolai
149
2
Friedrich von Flotow
151
1
Gioacchino Rossini
152
18
Gaetano Donizetti
170
9
Vincenzo Bellini
179
8
Michael Balfe
187
2
CHAPTER FIVE -- VERDI, WAGNER AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES
189
128
List of operas covered in Chapter 5
189
4
Giuseppe Verdi
193
29
Amilcare Ponchielli
222
2
Arrigo Boito
224
3
Richard Wagner
227
27
Johann Strauss the Younger
254
4
Ambroise Thomas
258
2
Charles Gounod
260
5
Jacques Offenbach
265
7
Edouard Lalo
272
1
Camille Saint-Saens
273
3
Leo Delibes
276
1
Georges Bizet
277
5
Emmanuel Chabrier
282
2
Ernest Chausson
284
1
Arthur Sullivan
285
4
Bedrich Smetana
289
4
Antonin Dvorak
293
2
Mikhail Glinka
295
3
Alexander Borodin
298
2
Modest Mussorgsky
300
6
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
Alfredo Catalani
321
2
Pietro Mascagni
323
4
Ruggero Leoncavallo
327
3
Giacomo Puccini
330
17
Umberto Giordano
347
2
Francesco Cilea
349
2
Jules Massenet
351
7
Gustave Charpentier
358
2
Claude Debussy
360
4
Engelbert Humperdinck
364
3
Frederick Delius
367
4
CHAPTER SEVEN -- THE ERA OF MODERNISM
371
122
List of operas covered in Chapter 7
371
5
Richard Strauss
376
15
Hans Pfitzner
391
2
Alexander Zemlinsky
393
4
Arnold Schoenberg
397
4
Franz Schreker
401
4
Alban Berg
405
4
Paul Hindemith
409
5
Kurt Weill
414
6
Ernst Krenek
420
2
Viktor Ullmann
422
3
Ervin Schulhoff
425
1
Ferruccio Busoni
426
4
Leos Janacek
430
10
Bohuslav Martinu
440
3
Erich Korngold
443
3
Franz Lehar
446
4
Bela Bartok
450
3
Zoltan Kodaly
453
2
Karol Szymanowski
455
2
Sergei Rachmaninov
457
2
Igor Stravinsky
459
6
Sergei Prokofiev
465
6
Dmitri Shostakovich
471
3
Carl Nielsen
474
2
Ralph Vaughan Williams
476
3
Paul Dukas
479
2
Maurice Ravel
481
3
Manuel de Falla
484
3
Virgil Thomson
487
3
George Gershwin
490
3
CHAPTER EIGHT -- OPERA SINCE WORLS WAR II
493
94
List of operas covered in Chapter 8
493
4
Francis Poulenc
497
4
Olivier Messiaen
501
2
Luigi Dallapiccola
503
2
Luigi Nono
505
1
Luciano Berio
506
3
Gottfried von Einem
509
2
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
511
2
Hans Werner Henze
513
4
Aribert Reimann
517
2
Karlheinz Stockhausen
519
5
Gyorgy Ligeti
524
3
Krzysztof Penderecki
527
1
Alfred Schnittke
528
2
Aulis Sallinen
530
2
Benjamin Britten
532
13
Michael Tippett
545
5
William Walton
550
3
Harrison Birtwistle
553
4
Peter Maxwell Davies
557
4
Michael Nyman
561
2
John Tavener
563
1
Judith Weir
564
4
Mark-Anthony Turnage
568
1
Gian Carlo Menotti
569
3
Samuel Barber
572
2
Leonard Bernstein
574
2
Carlisle Floyd
576
12
Philip Glass
578
3
John Corigliano
581
2
John Adams
583
4
DIRECTORY OF SINGERS
587
26
DIRECTORY OF CONDUCTORS
613
10
DIRECTORY OF OPERA HOUSES
623
26
GLOSSARY
649
8
INDEX
657