When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, t

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A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.

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In Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a wide-ranging, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. A unique anthology of primary s