- 1589-1761: Baroque Opera
- 1589-1634: The New Art
- 1635-1646: Opera in Venice
- 1647-1677: Italian Opera Reaches Paris
- 1678-1702: France, Germany, Paris
- 1703-1731: The Second Century of Opera
- 1717-1731: Prima Donnas and Castrati
- 1732-1739: The Seeds of Change
- 1740-1761: The Death of Handel
- 1762-1850: Classical and Romantic Opera
- 1762-1775: Opera is Reborn
- 1776-1780: Melodrama and Singspiel
- 1781-1786: Mozart in Vienna
- 1787-1791: Mozart’s Last Operas
- 1792-1804: Opera after the French Revolution
- 1805-1816: Opera during the Empire
- 1817-1821: Weber and German Romanticism
- 1822-1828: Romantic Opera
- 1829-1835: Bel Canto
- 1836-1841: Successors to Rossini
- 1842-1850: Verdi and Wagner
- 1851-1914: International Opera
- 1851-1857: Verdi’s Middle Period
- 1858-1867: The Second Empire
- 1868-1875: The New Repertory
- 1876-1882: Bayreuth
- 1883-1895: Perfect Wagnerites
- 1896-1902: The Turn of the Century
- 1903-1907: Revival and Rebellion
- 1908-1914: A Blaze of Glory
- 1915–: The Age of Recording
- 1915-1918: Neoclassicism
- 1919-1925: After the War
- 1926-1932: Opera in the Weimar Republic
- 1933-1944: Opera in the Shadow of War
- 1945-1953: The New Order
- 1954-1960: Grand Opera Reborn
- 1961-1975: Opera and Anti-Opera
- 1976-1991: Postmodernism
- after 1992: Radical Stagings
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