HISTORY OF THE OPERA (FROM ITS ORIGIN TO PRESENT)

HISTORY OF THE OPERA.....FROM IT ORIGIN IN ITLAY TO PRESENT TIME. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A GOOD READ ABOUT THE EARLY DAYS OF THE OPERA...THIS IS IT. 350 PAGES IN PRINT.

IT has often been said, and notably, by J. J. Rousseau, and after him, with characteristic exaggeration, by R. Wagner, that "Opera" does not mean so much a musical work, as a musical, poetical, and spectacular work all at once; that "Opera" in fact, is "the work," par excellence, to the production of which all the arts are ...