[PDF.99rp]  Opera for Everyone, A Historical, Social, Artistic, Literary, and..* Jean Grundy Fanelli, Jean Grundy Fanelli

Not your usual opera guide, this work forgoes the usual synopses of plots, biographical particulars, and anecdotes to concentrate instead on fundamental elements of opera examining it from many angles. With a discussion of such topics as those who created it―the musicians, writers, and artists―the outcome of their work, commissioners and producers, why opera developed as it did, why particular styles became popular, when operas were given and in what environment or ...