Chapter 20 No.20

Italian Opera to Verdi

Cimarosa, Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini-The last writers of the Neapolitan school-Tune for tune's sake-Rossini's improvements in methods of opera writing-Verdi and his three styles-"A?da," and "Otello," "Falstaff," and the new school of Italian opera.

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