Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Map: centres of German opera
1. Sixteenth-century beginnings
2. The Thirty Years War and its aftermath
3. The Hamburg enterprise
4. Travelling troupes and changing attitudes
5. From the Seven Years War to the French Revolution
6. The Viennese Singspiel
7. Mozart's German operas
8. From the French Revolution to the turn of the century
9. French opera in Germany after the Revolution
10. New critics and singers
11. Opera in a new century: the first decade (I)
12. Opera in a new century: the first decade (II)
13. The growth of Romantic and grand opera
14. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (I)
15. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (II)
16. Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (I)
Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (II)
18. Wagner
Appendix: list of operas
Bibliography
Index.
