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A History of Opera : The Last Four Hundred Years LimitedStock unflinching and fiercely funny explorationAuthor(s): Parker, Roger, Abbate, Carolyn Binding: Paperback, Date of Publication: 06 08 2015, Pagination: 656 pages, 24 pp colour inset, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780141009018, Description: 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'The best single volume ever written on the subject' The Times Literary SupplementWhy has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for