Abbate and Parker\'s A History of Opera is the first full new History of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition.
Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their scrupulous and provocative retelling of the History of opera, examining its development, the means by which it communicates, and its societal. "The best single volume ever written on the subject." (The Times Literary Supplement).
Abbate and Parker\'s A History of Opera is the first full new History of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition