A history of English opera / Eric Walter White.

Author/creator White, Eric Walter
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Boston : Faber & Faber, 1983.
Description472 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Opera--England. --History and criticism.

Contents Introduction -- Prelude: the birth of opera in Italy-XVIth century -- Part one: Tentative beginnings: XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Plays with music ; Farce jigs ; Court masques -- Interlude I: English travelers at Italian opera performances in the XVIIth century -- Part two: Representations in the XVIIth century. Commonwealth subterfuges ; Restoration revivals ; Lock, and the rise of dramatic opera ; Henry Purcell -- Interlude II: The first Italian operas in London in the early XVIIIth century. Part three: Serious operas, comic operas, masques, ballad operas, burlettas and pasticcios in the XVIIIth century. Handel ; The emergence of ballad opera ; Arne and Dibdin ; Storace, and some other contemporary composers -- Interlude III: English operas abroad in the XVIIIth and early XIXth centuries -- Part four: Romantic operas-XIXth century. The Romantic movement, and Weber's 'Oberon' ; Balfe and his contemporaries ; Some national opera schemes, and Gilbert and Sullivan -- Interlude IV: operas in exile, including those of De Lara, Delius and Smyth (XIXth and XXth centuries) -- Part five: Laying permanent foundations-XXth century. Touring companies, seasons, festivals, Boughton's music dramas ; The Old Vic, Sadler's Wells, Covent Garde and the Coliseum, Britten and Tippett -- Postlude: Summary and projection ; Appendix.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 83001599
ISBN0571107885
ISBN9780571107889

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