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Author(s): Fawkes, Richard
Reader(s): Powell, Robert
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Series: Educational - Histories
Genre: Arts
Catalogue No: NA417612
Barcode: 0730099017626
Release Date: 06/1999
FAWKES, R.: History of Opera (The) (Unabridged)
Since its origins in the sixteenth century, opera has been an extravagant, costly affair, arousing great passions. It has also produced some of the most sublime works of art, from Monteverdi to Wagner. Following the widely acclaimed History of Classical Music, Richard Fawkes traces the history of opera up to the present day on the first three CDs, and devotes the fourth to the history of operetta.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Fawkes, Richard - Author
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|  | 1 | Opera - The Beginnings | 04:15 |
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| | 2 | The Baroque - Opera Emerges | 05:16 |
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| | 3 | Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) | 05:39 |
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| | 4 | The First Public Opera House In Venice - 1637 | 03:06 |
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| | 5 | Opera Spreads | 05:24 |
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| | 6 | Opera In France | 05:13 |
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| | 7 | Opera In Germany - 17th Century | 01:42 |
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| | 8 | Opera In England - 17th Century | 06:57 |
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| | 9 | George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) | 04:19 |
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| | 10 | Castrati | 05:34 |
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| | 11 | Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787) | 04:59 |
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| | 12 | Singspiel | 02:13 |
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| | 13 | The Classical Period | 02:27 |
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| | 14 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) | 06:48 |
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| | 15 | Mozart With The Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte | 09:14 |
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| | 16 | Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) | 06:18 |
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Disc 2
| | 1 | Opera In Italy - The Early 19th Century | 12:04 |
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| | 2 | Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) | 06:44 |
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| | 3 | Vincenzo Bellini | 05:05 |
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| | 4 | The High C | 01:21 |
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| | 5 | Opera In Germany - The Early 19th Century | 07:07 |
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| | 6 | Opera In Paris - The Early 19th Century | 07:44 |
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| | 7 | Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1835) | 04:14 |
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| | 8 | Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893) | 05:53 |
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| | 9 | Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1890) | 03:04 |
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| | 10 | Camille Saint-Saens (1835 - 1921) | 04:20 |
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| | 11 | Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) | 05:33 |
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| | 12 | Opera In England - 19th Century | 04:55 |
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| | 13 | Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) | 08:28 |
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| | 14 | Verdi - The Middle Period | 02:50 |
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Disc 3
| | 1 | Verdi - The Years Of Maturity | 06:03 |
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| | 2 | Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) | 06:18 |
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| | 3 | The Ring | 07:23 |
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| | 4 | The Beginning Of Verismo | 11:31 |
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| | 5 | Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) | 05:02 |
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| | 6 | La bohème | 07:52 |
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| | 7 | The Rise Of Nationalism - Bohemia | 05:18 |
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| | 8 | Nationalism In Russia | 05:26 |
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| | 9 | Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) | 05:45 |
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| | 10 | Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894) | 02:24 |
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| | 11 | Peter Illy'ich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) | 04:40 |
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| | 12 | Impressionism In France | 04:11 |
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| | 13 | Expressionism In Germany | 07:32 |
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Disc 4
| | 1 | Arnold Schonberg (1874 - 1951) | 03:46 |
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| | 2 | Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) | 02:10 |
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| | 3 | Other German Composers | 02:56 |
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| | 4 | Poland - Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937) | 02:16 |
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| | 5 | Czechoslovakia - Leos Janacek (1854 - 1928) | 02:56 |
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| | 6 | Hungary - Zoltan Kodaly (1882 - 1967), Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945) | 00:32 |
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| | 7 | Spain - Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946) | 01:04 |
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| | 8 | USA | 04:40 |
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| | 9 | Russia | 02:33 |
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| | 10 | Britain | 05:25 |
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| | 11 | The Present - And Future | 04:01 |
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| | 12 | Casinos And Opera | 01:35 |
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| | 13 | Burnings And Opera | 00:44 |
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| | 14 | Animals And Opera | 00:49 |
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| | 15 | Singers And Opera | 02:13 |
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| | 16 | Tosca And Opera | 02:04 |
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| | 17 | What Is Operetta? | 02:54 |
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| | 18 | The Opera - Comique In Paris, 1715 | 02:49 |
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| | 19 | Adolphe Adam (1803 - 1856) And Herve (1825 - 1892) | 03:28 |
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| | 20 | Jacques Offenbach | 05:13 |
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| | 21 | Operetta In Germany | 02:05 |
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| | 22 | Operetta In Vienna | 02:42 |
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| | 23 | Johann Strauss Junior (1825 - 1899) | 04:21 |
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| | 24 | Operetta In England | 04:16 |
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| | 25 | Viennese Operetta - Into The 20th Century | 04:45 |
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| | 26 | Oscar Straus (1870 - 1954) | 00:29 |
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| | 27 | Emmerich Kalman (1882 - 1953) | 01:08 |
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| | 28 | Robert Stolz (1880 - 1975) | 00:51 |
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| | 29 | Light Opera - USA | 02:40 |
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| | 30 | Goodbye | 02:07 |
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Total Playing Time: 05:17:43