First Nights at the Opera Opera Posters Dolora Zajick

Dolora Zajick

Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover--a clear

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First Nights at the Opera Opera Posters Dolora ZajickIn First Nights at the Opera, the renowned music scholar Thomas Kelly narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age by taking us behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas: Handels Giulio Cesare (London, 1724), Mozarts Don Giovanni (Prague, 1787), Meyerbeers Les Huguenots (Paris, 1836), Wagners Das Rheingold (Bayreuth, 1876), and Verdis Otello (Milan, 1887). What was it like to be