History of Opera

Introduction

• What is Opera?

Table of contents

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