opera: Italian Opera of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Italian Opera of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Italian
Neapolitan opera became known as well for the importance it gave to comic opera as a separate genre. Comedy had maintained its place in the opera house mainly in the form of brief interludes, or intermezzi (see intermezzo), that were played between the acts of
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Twentieth-Century Opera
- Russian Opera
- Verdi and the Late Nineteenth Century in Italy
- Early-Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
- The Development of French Grand Opera and Opéra Comique
- The Romantic Movement in Germany
- German and Austrian Opera in the Eighteenth Century
- The Development of English Opera
- Italian Opera of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Early French Opera
- The Baroque in Rome and Venice
- Florentine Beginnings
- Characteristics
- Bibliography
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