opera: The Development of English Opera
The Development of English Opera
The first English opera was
The reigning “English” composer was a German who had completely absorbed the Neapolitan Italian style, George Frideric Handel. Although best known as the composer of the oratorio
Coincident with Handel's efforts at establishing Italian opera in England were the attempts of native talent to produce an English musical theatrical form. The result was
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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