FAWKES, R.: History of Opera (The) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Fawkes, Richard, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 1999.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Opera - The Beginnings ( 04 min., 15 sec. )

The Baroque - Opera Emerges ( 05 min., 16 sec. )

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) ( 05 min., 39 sec. )

The First Public Opera House In Venice - 1637 ( 03 min., 06 sec. )

Opera Spreads ( 05 min., 24 sec. )

Opera In France ( 05 min., 13 sec. )

Opera In Germany - 17th Century ( 01 min., 42 sec. )

Opera In England - 17th Century ( 06 min., 57 sec. )

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) ( 04 min., 19 sec. )

Castrati ( 05 min., 34 sec. )

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787) ( 04 min., 59 sec. )

Singspiel ( 02 min., 13 sec. )

The Classical Period ( 02 min., 27 sec. )

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) ( 06 min., 48 sec. )

Mozart With The Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte ( 09 min., 14 sec. )

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) ( 06 min., 18 sec. )

Opera In Italy - The Early 19th Century ( 12 min., 04 sec. )

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) ( 06 min., 44 sec. )

Vincenzo Bellini ( 05 min., 05 sec. )

The High C ( 01 min., 21 sec. )

Opera In Germany - The Early 19th Century ( 07 min., 07 sec. )

Opera In Paris - The Early 19th Century ( 07 min., 44 sec. )

Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1835) ( 04 min., 14 sec. )

Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893) ( 05 min., 53 sec. )

Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1890) ( 03 min., 04 sec. )

Camille Saint-Saens (1835 - 1921) ( 04 min., 20 sec. )

Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) ( 05 min., 33 sec. )

Opera In England - 19th Century ( 04 min., 55 sec. )

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) ( 08 min., 28 sec. )

Verdi - The Middle Period ( 02 min., 50 sec. )

Verdi - The Years Of Maturity ( 06 min., 03 sec. )

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) ( 06 min., 18 sec. )

The Ring ( 07 min., 23 sec. )

The Beginning Of Verismo ( 11 min., 31 sec. )

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) ( 05 min., 02 sec. )

La bohème ( 07 min., 52 sec. )

The Rise Of Nationalism - Bohemia ( 05 min., 18 sec. )

Nationalism In Russia ( 05 min., 26 sec. )

Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) ( 05 min., 45 sec. )

Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894) ( 02 min., 24 sec. )

Peter Illy'ich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) ( 04 min., 40 sec. )

Impressionism In France ( 04 min., 11 sec. )

Expressionism In Germany ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

Arnold Schonberg (1874 - 1951) ( 03 min., 46 sec. )

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) ( 02 min., 10 sec. )

Other German Composers ( 02 min., 56 sec. )

Poland - Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) ( 02 min., 16 sec. )

Czechoslovakia - Leos Janacek (1854 - 1928) ( 02 min., 56 sec. )

Hungary - Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967), Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945) ( 32 sec. )

Spain - Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) ( 01 min., 04 sec. )

USA ( 04 min., 40 sec. )

Russia ( 02 min., 33 sec. )

Britain ( 05 min., 25 sec. )

The Present - And Future ( 04 min., 01 sec. )

Casinos And Opera ( 01 min., 35 sec. )

Burnings And Opera ( 44 sec. )

Animals And Opera ( 49 sec. )

Singers And Opera ( 02 min., 13 sec. )

Tosca And Opera ( 02 min., 04 sec. )

What Is Operetta? ( 02 min., 54 sec. )

The Opera - Comique In Paris, 1715 ( 02 min., 49 sec. )

Adolphe Adam (1803 - 1856) And Herve (1825 - 1892) ( 03 min., 28 sec. )

Jacques Offenbach ( 05 min., 13 sec. )

Operetta In Germany ( 02 min., 05 sec. )

Operetta In Vienna ( 02 min., 42 sec. )

Johann Strauss Junior (1825 - 1899) ( 04 min., 21 sec. )

Operetta In England ( 04 min., 16 sec. )

Viennese Operetta - Into The 20th Century ( 04 min., 45 sec. )

Oscar Straus (1870 - 1954) ( 29 sec. )

Emmerich Kalman (1882 - 1953) ( 01 min., 08 sec. )

Robert Stolz (1880 - 1975) ( 51 sec. )

Light Opera - USA ( 02 min., 40 sec. )

Goodbye ( 02 minutes, 07 sec. )

Participant:

Powell, Robert, Reader -- Fawkes, Richard, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

0730099017626

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.