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Composer of the Week Monteverdi to Rossini - Italian Opera Episodes

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Back up to: Composer of the Week

  1. Episode 5

    5/5 Donald Macleod explores operas by Rossini, Ferdinando Paer and Simon Mayr.

  2. Episode 4

    4/5 Donald Macleod explores opera buffa, a comic style, often with ludicrous plots.

  3. Episode 3

    3/5 Donald Macleod explores Italian opera, focusing on the tradition of opera seria.

  4. Episode 2

    2/5 Donald Macleod focuses on Italian opera in the 1720s, and the work of Vivaldi and Handel.

  5. Episode 1

    1/5 Donald Macleod focuses on the first opera and the first operatic masterpiece.