A chronicle of four centuries of music drama, beginning with the seventeenth-century bel canto, the operas of Gluck, eighteenth-century classicists led by Mozart and Rossini, the grand operas of Verdi and Wagner, and many more.Chronicles four centures of music drama, from the seventeenth century, through eighteenth-century classicists led by Mozart, Romantics such as Rossini, the grand operas of Verdi and Wagner, to the twentieth century
