A history of opera

Opera's first centennial

Opera seria

Discipline

Opera buffa and Mozart's line of beauty

Singing and speaking before 1800

The German problem

Rossini and transition

The tenor comes of age

Young Verdi

Grand opera

Young Wagner

Opéra comique, the crucible

Old Wagner

Verdi : older still

Realism and clamour

Turning point

Modern speech

We are alone in the forest.