TY - BOOK AU - Somerset-Ward,Richard AU - Te Kanawa,Kiri TI - The story of opera SN - 0810941937 (clothbound) AV - ML 1700 S695s 1998 U1 - 782.1 PY - 1998/// CY - New York PB - Abrams KW - Ópera N1 - "Il dramma per musica" The singers take the stage From Gluck to Mozart The golden age of Italian opera German romantic opera Opera in nineteenth-century Paris Opera of the people An interlude with realism Popular musical theater On the twentieth century N2 - Offers a rich pictorial account of opera's past and present ER -