opera: Early Opera
Early Opera
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Twentieth-Century Opera
- Russian Opera
- Verdi and the Late Nineteenth Century in Italy
- Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
- The Development of French Grand Opera and Opéra Comique
- The Romantic Movement in Germany
- Opera in the Nineteenth Century
- German and Austrian Opera in the Eighteenth Century
- The Development of English Opera
- Italian Opera of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Early French Opera
- The Baroque in Rome and Venice
- Florentine Beginnings
- Early Opera
- Characteristics
- Bibliography
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