History of Opera

This survey of opera, organized by century, considerably supplements the coverage of the genre in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. The four main sections - Baroque, Pre-Classical and Classical, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century - that follow Stanley Sadie's introductory essay on the nature of opera, are devoted to national developments within the chronological framework; between these are a series of "entr'actes" designed to place opera in a broader social and cultural perspective and to convey something of the nature of the world of opera and its changing milieu. Book jacket.Sadie, Stanley is the author of 'History of Opera' with ISBN 9780393028102 and ISBN 0393028100.