Learn about Opera: The Definitive Illustrated History - Follows the history of opera from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, to Cosi fan Tutte, La Bohème, and modern operas such as Brokeback Mountain.
In this sometimes plodding, sometimes energetic, but always fascinating history of opera, music historians Abbate and Parker conduct us on a captivating journey from the birth of opera in the 17th ...
In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois portrays a newcomer to the world of opera, enthralled by the Prelude to Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. John “sat in dreamland, and started when, after a ...
Every year upwards of 400,000 music lovers travel to the shores of Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria, to witness opera performances on the world's largest floating stage at the Bregenz Festival. This ...
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