German Opera

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Map: centres of German opera
• 1. Sixteenth-century beginnings
• 2. The Thirty Years War and its aftermath
• 3. The Hamburg enterprise
• 4. Travelling troupes and changing attitudes
• 5. From the Seven Years War to the French Revolution
• 6. The Viennese Singspiel
• 7. Mozart's German operas
• 8. From the French Revolution to the turn of the century
• 9. French opera in Germany after the Revolution
• 10. New critics and singers
• 11. Opera in a new century: the first decade (I)
• 12. Opera in a new century: the first decade (II)
• 13. The growth of Romantic and grand opera
• 14. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (I)
• 15. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (II)
• 16. Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (I)
• Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (II)
• 18. Wagner
• Appendix: list of operas
• Bibliography
• Index.