Celebrates the great eras of music and performance, mixing fact and anecdote, personalities and stylistic development with hundreds of illustrations, while key historical dates set the operas in context. This work also contains a reference section including biographies, a timeline, list of opera house openings and premieres, and more.
The first of two books in a new series focussing in on a particular year and a genre within that year. One of the key years in the development of rock music - 1970 saw a change from the hippie era to a harder edged music.
