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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About the Authors
  4. Dedication
  5. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  6. Preface and acknowledgements
  7. List of illustrations
  8. 1. Introduction
  9. 2. Opera’s first centennial
  10. 3. Opera seria
  11. 4. Discipline
  12. 5. Opera buffa and Mozart’s line of beauty
  13. 6. Singing and speaking before 1800
  14. 7. The German problem
  15. 8. Rossini and transition
  16. 9. The tenor comes of age
  17. 10. Young Verdi
  18. 11. Grand Opera
  19. 12. Young Wagner
  20. 13. Opéra comique, the crucible
  21. 14. Old Wagner
  22. 15. Verdi – older still
  23. 16. Realism and clamour
  24. 17. Turning point
  25. 18. Modern
  26. 19. Speech
  27. 20. Revenants in the museum
  28. 21. We are alone in the forest
  29. Illustrations
  30. General Bibliography
  31. References
  32. Follow Penguin
  33. Copyright Page

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