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The rough guide to opera, written by Matthew Boyden with contributions from Nick Kimberley [and others] ; edited by Joe Staines

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The rough guide to opera

written by Matthew Boyden with contributions from Nick Kimberley [and others] ; edited by Joe Staines

Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The birth of opera: Monteverdi to Purcell -- Baroque opera: Vivaldi to Handel -- The reformation of opera: Gluck to Mozart -- The age of romanticism -- Verdi, Wagner, and their contemporaries -- Opera in transition: the generation of Puccini, Massenet, and Debussy -- The era of modernism -- Opera since World War II