Links to other sources

Moteverdi biography: "Classical Insights" online biography of Monteverdi.

Gluck biography: An online biography from the University of Nevada at Los Vegas

Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice." A synopsis of the opera.

Alessandro Scarlatti biography: Classical Music Pages' extracted biography of the composer.

Baroque Music: Lectures from Orange Coast College's music department.

Bokina, John. Opera and Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1997.

Brown, Howard Mayer. Euridice. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera . ed. Stanley Sadie. New York: Macmillan Press, 1992.

D'Accone, Frank A. The History of Baroque Opera: Alessando Scarlatti's Gli equivoci nel sembiante. New York: Pendragon Press, 1985.

Darrington, Robert. The Opera. New York: Harcourt-Brace-Javanovich; 1978.

Green, J.R. Theatre In Ancient Greek Society. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Grout, Donald J. The Short History of Opera. New York: Columbia University Press; 1988.

Hayes, Jeremy. Orfeo ed Euridice . The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. ed. Stanley Sadie. New York: Macmillan Press, 1992.

Howard, Patricia. C.W. Vaughan Gluck Orfeo. New York: Cambridge University Press; 1981.

Kimbell, David. Italian Opera. New York: Cambridge University Press; 1991.

Pirotta, Nino. "Early Opera and Aria." New Looks at Italian Opera. ed. William W. Austin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 1968. 39-107.

Robinson, Michael F. Naples and Neapolitan Opera. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1972.

Walcot, Peter. Greek Drama In Its Theatrical and Social Context. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976.

Whenham, John. "Orfeo." New Grove Dictionary of Opera. ed. Stanley Sadie. New York: Macmillan Press; 1992.

Worsthorne, Simon Towneley. Venetian Opera in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press; 1954.