Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Sixteenth-century beginings -- 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 (1) -- 12 Opera in a new century: the first decade (2) -- 13 The groth of Romantic and grand opera -- 14 Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (1) -- 15 Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (2) -- 16 Opera in the mid nineteenth century (1) -- 17 Opera in the mid nineteenth century (2) -- 18 Wagner -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.