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The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by R. A. Streatfeild
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GOUNOD--THOMAS--BIZET--SAINT SAËNS--REYER---MASSENET--BRUNEAU--
CHARPENTIER--DEBUSSY

XII. MODERN ITALY 262

VERDI--BOITO--PONCHIELLI--PUCCINI--MASCAGNI--LEONCAVALLO--GIORDANO

XIII. MODERN GERMAN AND SLAVONIC OPERA 302

CORNELIUS--GOETZ---GOLDMARK--HUMPERDINCK--STRAUSS--SMETANA--
GLINKA--PADEREWSKI

XIV. ENGLISH OPERA 323

BALFE--WALLACE--BENEDICT--GORING THOMAS--MACKENZIE--STANFORD--
SULLIVAN--SMYTH

INDEX OF OPERAS 351

INDEX OF COMPOSERS 361

INTRODUCTION

If Music be, among the arts, 'Heaven's youngest-teemed star', the
latest of the art-forms she herself has brought forth is
unquestionably Opera. Three hundred years does not at first seem a