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Author Grundy Fanelli, Jean.

Title Opera for everyone : a historic, social, artistic, literary, and musical study / Jean Grundy Fanelli.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

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Description xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index.
Contents Introduction : About opera -- Before opera -- The first operas -- Opera in Mantua -- Roman opera : serious and comic -- Opera in Venice -- From Venice to France -- Opera abroad and operatic development in Italy -- The late baroque -- Comic opera -- Embers of opera seria -- Mozart and Da Ponte -- Rossini -- Romanticism : from France to Germany -- Italian bel canto, 1830-35 -- Romanticism with patriotic feeling -- Grand opéra and counterbalance -- Romantic Wagner -- Italian gloom and despair -- France after the midcentury -- Grand opera and music drama -- Oriental influence -- Realism and the Giovane scuola -- Clinging to melody -- Discordant times -- A reflection of one's country -- At the millennium.
Subject Opera.
Opera.
ISBN 0810848945 paperback alkaline paper
0810841142 cloth alkaline paper