History of Opera

Introduction

 * /What is Opera?/

Early Opera

 * /Pre-Florentine Camerata/
 * /Florentine Camerata and Contemporaries/

Baroque

 * /Early Baroque/ (Monteverdi, Vivaldi, etc)
 * /Handel/

Classical-Romantic

 * /Gluck/
 * /Mozart/
 * /Contemporaries of Mozart/
 * /Beethoven/

Italian

 * /Bel Canto/
 * /Rossini/
 * /Donizetti/
 * /Bellini/
 * /Verdi/
 * /Puccini/
 * /Verismo/
 * /Mascagni/
 * /Leoncavallo/

French

 * /Early French/
 * /Bizet/
 * /Gounod/
 * /Offenbach/
 * /Debussy/

German

 * /Early German Opera/
 * /German Operetta/
 * /Wagner/
 * /Strauss/
 * /Korngold/
 * /Berg/
 * /Schonberg/
 * /Weill/