The birth and life of opera [videorecording] / Tiger Aspect Productions for NVC Arts & Channel Four ; written & presented by Howard Goodall ; producer, Paul Sommers ; director, Rupert Edwards.
Narrator, Howard Goodall. Originally broadcast in 2000 as an episode of the television series Howard Goodall's big bangs.
Summary:
From the birth of opera in Florence with the Camerata to the genius of Monteverdi and beyond, this program looks at how opera grew into both a form of entertainment and a a vehicle for delivering incisive social, political, and cultural messages. The operettas of Offenbach and of Gilbert and Sullivan are also considered, as is opera's maturation into a worldwide phenomenon.
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