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Title: The History of Opera

Author: Richard Fawkes

Narrator: Nicolas Soames, Robert Powell

Format: Abridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Release date: June 2, 1999

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 14

Genres: Arts & Entertainment

Publisher's Summary: Since its origins in the sixteenth century, opera has been an extravagant, costly affair, arousing great passions. It has also produced some of the most sublime works of art, from Monteverdi to Wagner. Following the widely acclaimed History of Classical Music, Richard Fawkes traces the history of opera up to the present day on the first three CDs, and devotes the fourth to the history of operetta. Featuring more than seventy-five musical examples.