The Chronicle of Opera Book

	Introduction	8
1	1589-1761 Baroque Opera	16
	1589-1634 The New Art	20
	1635-1646 Opera in Venice	24
	1647-1677 Italian Opera Reaches Paris	26
	1678-1702 France, Germany, England	30
	1703-1716 The Second Century of Opera	34
	1717-1731 Prima Donnas and Castrati	38
	1732-1739 The Seeds of Change	44
	1740-1761 The Death of Handel	50
2	1762-1850 Classical and Romantic Opera	56
	1762-1775 Opera is Reborn	60
	1776-1780 Melodrama and Singspiel	66
	1781-1786 Mozart in Vienna	68
	1787-1791 Mozart's Last Operas	72
	1792-1804 Opera after the French Revolution	78
	1805-1816 Opera during the Empire	82
	1817-1821 Weber and German Romanticism	88
	1822-1828 Romantic Opera	92
	1829-1835 Bel Canto	98
	1836-1841 Successors to Rossini	106
	1842-1850 Verdi and Wagner	110
3	1851-1914 International Opera	116
	1851-1857 Verdi's Middle Period	120
	1858-1867 The Second Empire	124
	1868-1875 The New Repertory	132
	1876-1882 Bayreuth	138
	1883-1895 Perfect Wagnerites	144
	1896-1902 The Turn of the Century	152
	1903-1907 Revival and Rebellion	158
	1908-1914 A Blaze of Glory	164
4	1915-1997 The Age of Recording	170
	1915-1918 Neoclassicism	174
	1919-1925 After the War	178
	1926-1932 Opera in the Weimar Republic	184
	1933-1944 Opera in the Shadow of War	190
	1945-1953 The New Order	198
	1954-1960 Grand Opera Reborn	204
	1961-1975 Opera and Anti-Opera	212
	1976-1997 Postmodernism	218
	Glossary	225
	Timeline	226
	Opera Premieres	230
	Biogrpahies of 100 Singers	232
	Discography	237
	Bibliography	240
	Sources of Illustrations	241
	Index	242