CD Running Order Introduction The Opera Experience The Elements of Opera Behind the Scenes: the Making of an Opera The Story of Opera The World of Opera through Eight Masterworks (as below) A Guide to 50 Further Essential Operas Opera Houses and Festivals
Introduction The Middle Ages and the Renaissance Dante’s Worlds Chaucer’s England Shakespeare’s Stratford and London Montaigne’s France Cervantes’ Spain The Discovery of the New World: Arcadia and Utopia The Age of Reason The France of the Enlightenment The Journeys of the Age of the Novel Eighteenth Century London Eighteenth Century Dublin Eighteenth Century Edinburgh and …