A guide to opera recordings - Mordden, Ethan 1947- (New York Oxford University Press, 1987)
Opera on disc: a brief history -- First operas -- Opera seria and opera buffa -- Gluck -- Mozart -- Early German Romanitcism -- Rossini -- Grand opera -- Bellini -- Donizetti -- Berlioz -- Opéra comique -- Verdi -- Wagner -- Czech opera -- Russian opera -- Verismo era -- Puccini -- Massenet -- Stravinisky, Bartók, and Weill -- Modern French opera -- Stauss -- Twelve-tone opera -- Modern Germand opera -- Modern English opera -- American opera.
Includes index.
Keywords: Operas -- Discography; Sound recordings -- Reviews