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A Concise History of Opera
A Concise History of Opera
Author: Leslie Orrey
"One of the most magnificent and expensive diversions the wit of man can invent" wrote the diarist John Evelyn after his visit to the opera in Venice in 1645, just 8 years after the world's first commercial opera house had opened in that city.  Today few people would wholly dissent from Evelyn's view of opera.....
ISBN-13: 9780684135762
ISBN-10: 0684135760
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Book Type: Paperback
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