TY - BOOK AU - Parker,Roger TI - The Oxford illustrated history of opera SN - 9780192854452 (pbk.) : U1 - 782.1'09 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Opera KW - History KW - Social aspects N1 - Originally published: 1994; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The history and social context of opera is explored by a group of leading British and American scholars in this volume. The core of the book is a historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s ER -