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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)
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