opera

Addressing seven languages, this definitive visual guide explores 400 years of music drama, from late-Renaissance Italy to the modern day; presents synopses of 160 operas from around the world; and discusses the lives of composers, from Monteverdi to Adams.

Presents a background to opera and discusses the music and plot of many operas through the centuries.

Historical survey of opera from its beginnings in Florence four hundred years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.