Somerset-Ward, Richard,   1942-  <br/><br/>
The story of opera / 
Richard Somerset-Ward ; foreword by Kiri Te Kanawa. 
 - New York :  Abrams,  1998. 
 - 304 pages :   illustrations (some color), portraits ;   31 cm. 
<br/><br/>"Il dramma per musica"<br/>The singers take the stage<br/>From Gluck to Mozart<br/>The golden age of Italian opera<br/>German romantic opera<br/>Opera in nineteenth-century Paris<br/>Opera of the people<br/>An interlude with realism<br/>Popular musical theater<br/>On the twentieth century 
<br/><br/> Offers a rich pictorial account of opera's past and present 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0810941937 (clothbound) 9780810941939 (clothbound) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ópera 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML 1700  / S695s 1998 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>782.1