02438cam a2200301 i 4500 925093806 TxAuBib 20230809120000.0 221208s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020562535 9780744056310 0744056314 TxAuBib rda Riding, Alan. Opera : the definitive illustrated story / Alan Riding & Leslie Dunton-Downer. Second edition, American edition. New York : DK Publishing, 2022. 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Introducing opera. What is opera? ; Librettos and librettists ; Staging opera ; Opera houses & festivals ; Idols of opera -- Monteverdi to Mozart, (c. 1600-1800). Claudio Monteverdi ; Jean-Baptiste Lully ; Henry Purcell ; Antonio Vivaldi ; Jean-Philippe Rameau ; George Frideric Handel ; Christoph Willibald Gluck ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Italian opera (c. 1800-19250) Gioacchino Rossini ; Vicenzo Bellini ; Gaetano Donizetti ; Guiseppe Verdi ; Pietro Mascagni ; Ruggero Leoncavallo ; Umberto Giordano ; Giacomo Puccini -- Germanic opera, (c. 1800/1950). Ludwig van Beethoven ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Richard Wagner ; Johann Strauss the Younger ; Richard Strauss. French opera (c. 1790/1900). Luigi Cherubini ; Giacomo Meyerbeer ; Hector Berlioz ; Charles-François Gounod ; Jacques Offenbach ; Georges Bizet ; Jules Massenet ; Claude Debussy -- Russian opera (c. 1830/1960). Mikhail Ivanovich Glinkan ; Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ; The golden cockerel ; Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; Sergei Prokofiev ; Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich. Czech opera (c.1860/1940). Bedrich Smetana ; Antonín Dvořák ; Leoš Janáček -- Modern opera (c. 1900- ) Ethel Mary Smyth ; Scott Joplin ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Kurt Weill ; Béla Bartók ; George Gershwin ; Francis Poulenc ; Benjamin Britten ; Leonard Bernstein ; György Ligeti ; Philip Glass ; John Adams ; Tan Dun ; Thomas Adès ; Unsulk Chin ; Mark-Anthony Trunage ; George Benjamin ; Charles Wuorinen ; Kaija Saariaho ; Terence Blanchard. 20230809. Opera. Dunton-Downer, Leslie. QS7