Abandon d’Ariane, L’ (The Desertion of Ariadne—Milhaud)
Abbatini, Antonio Maria
Abbot, The (Scott)
Abbot of Drimock, The (Musgrave)
Abduction of Cefalo, The. See Il rapimento di Cefalo (Caccini)
Abduction from the Seraglio, The. See Die Entfürhrung aus Serail (Mozart)
abduction operas. See also “Turkish” operas
Abel (Kreutzer)
Aberfan (Pannell)
Abert, Heinrich
Abreise (The Departure—D’Albert)
Abstrakte Oper No. 1 (Blacher)
Abu Hassan (Weber)
Académie Royale de Musique (Academy of Music), Paris; see also Paris Opéra
academies (Italian). See Italy
Academy of Music, Berlin
Academy of Music, Marseilles
Academy of Music, New York City
Academy of Music, Paris
Accademia degli Alterati, Florence
Accademia degli Elevati, Florence
Accademia degli Immobile, Florence
Accademia degli Incogniti, Venice
Accademia degli Invaghiti, Mantua
Accademia Fiorentina, Florence
Acciaiuoli, Filippo
accidenti verissimi
accompanied recitative. See recitative, accompanied
accordian
Achille et Polyxène (Colasse)
Acis and Galatea (Handel)
Acis et Galatée (Lully)
Ackté, Aino
acrobatic displays
act tunes; see also interludes
actors: in Greek tragedy; clergy as; in mysteries
Adam, Adolphe-Charles
Adam de la Halle
Adami, Andrea
Adamo, Mark
Adams, John
Addio Garibaldi (Arrigo)
Addison, Joseph
Adelaide (A. Sartorio)
Adelasia ed Aleramo (Mayr)
Adelburg, August von
Adelina (Generali)
Admeto (Handel)
Adone (Marino)
Adonis (Keiser)
Adonis myth
Adorno, Theodor
Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilèa)
Adriano in Siria (J. C. Bach)
Adriano in Siria (Caldara)
Adriano in Siria (Hasse)
Adriano in Siria (Metastasio)
Adriano in Siria (Pergolesi)
Adventures of King Pausole, The. See Les Aventures du Roi Pausole (Honegger)
Aeneas i Cartago, eller Dido och Aeneas (Kraus)
Aeneid. See Eneida (Lysenko)
Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeschylus
aesthetics: of Florentine camerata; in Italian opera; of Handel; of Rameau; imitation of nature; musical, in Gluck’s reforms; nineteenth century; of Wagner; of Bizet; of Rimsky-Korsakov; of Busoni
Aethiop,The (Taylor)
Affekten; affects (moods)
Africaine, L’ (Meyerbeer)
African Americans; music of; opera of; casts of; see also folksongs
Afro-Caribbean music
afterpiece (dramatic work with music); defined
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Agamemnon (Milhaud)
Agamemnon (Werder)
Agamemnon of Aeschylus (Werder)
Agazzari, Agostino
Age of Dreams, The. See Aika ja uni (Rechberger; Kortekangas; Aho)
agitated style. See stile concitato
Agnes von Hohenstaufen (Spontini)
agréments
Agrippina (Handel)
Ägyptische Helena, Die (R. Strauss)
Ahlqvist, August
Ahlström, J. N.
Aho, Juhani
Aho, Kalevi
Aïda (Verdi); recurring motifs in
Aiglon, L’(The Young Eagle—Ibert and Honegger)
Aika ja uni (The Age of Dreams—Rechberger; Kortekangas; Aho)
air de cour
air majestueux
air(s); martial; in Lully; instrumental; binary; English; called “songs”; see also aria
Ajo nell’imbarazzo, L’ (The Tutor in a Jam—Donizetti)
Akhnaten (Glass)
Akkadian language
Alarcón, P.A. de
Albéniz, Isaac
Albert, Eugen d’
Albert Herring (Britten)
Albinoni, Tomaso
Albion and Albanius (Grabu)
Alceste (Calzabigi)
Alceste (Gluck)
Alceste (Lully)
Alceste (Quinault)
Alceste (Schweitzer)
Alceste (Strungk)
Alceste (Wieland)
Alcesti (E. Respighi)
Alcestiad, The (Talma)
Alcestis (Euripides)
Alcidiane (Lully)
Alcina (Handel)
Alcott, Louisa May
Alcyone (Marais)
Aldeburgh Festival, England
Aldrich, Putnam
Aldrich, Richard
aleatory rhythms
Aleksis Kivi (Rautavaara)
Aleko (Rakhmaninov)
Alessandro (Handel)
Alessandro (Majo)
Alessandro nell’Indie (J. C. Bach)
Alessandro nell’Indie (Corselli)
Alessandro nell’Indie (Metastasio)
Alessandro nell’Indie (Perez); revival of
Alessandro in Sidone (G. Bononcini)
Alessandro vincitore di se stesso (Cesti)
Alexander I, czar of Russia
Alexander II, czar of Russia
Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)
Alexis, Saint
Alfano, Franco
Alfonso und Estrella (Schubert)
Alfred (Dvořák)
Alfredo il grande (Mayr)
Alfvén, Hanner
Algarotti, Francesco
Al gran sole carico d’amore (In the Bright Sunshine, Heavy with Love—Nono)
Aline, reine de Golconde (Berton)
Alkestis (Wellesz)
alla turca
all-black casts. See black culture and casts
All-China Theater World Association, Beijing
Alley (Body)
Alley, Kiwi Rewi
all-female casts
Allgemeine Musik Zeitung (Prague)
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
allegory; allegorical: figures; scene(s); character; operas
alliteration. See Stabreim
all-male casts; see also male roles
All the King’s Men (Warren)
all’unisoni. See aria
Almast (Spendiaryan)
Almaviva; or, The Useless Precaution. See Almaviva ossia L’inutile precauzione (Rossini)
Almaviva ossia L’inutile precauzione (Almaviva; or, The Useless Precaution—Rossini); see also Il barbiere in Siviglia
Almira (Handel)
Álois (Mosonyi)
Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind (Alpine King and Man’s Enemy—Blech); revised as Rappelkopf
Alpine King and Man’s Enemy. See Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind (Blech)
Altïnohach (Golden Haired—Zhiganov)
Alvin Theater, New York City
Amadei, Filippo (aka Mattei)
Amadigi (Handel)
Amadis (Lully)
Amadis de Gaule (J. C. Bach)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
Amants magnfiques, Les (Molière and Lully)
Amaya (Guridi)
Amazone corsara, L’ (Pallavicino)
Ambra, Francesco d’
Ambros, W.A.
Amenhotep III, king
America. See American colonies; United States of America
America Independent; or, the Temple of Minerva (Hopkinson)
Americana: subjects of, for operas
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
American colonies, English opera in; see also United States
American Maid, or the Glassblowers, The (Sousa)
American musical theater
American opera: early examples of; nineteenth-century; German influences on; twentieth century see also United States
American Opera Company
American popular opera. See American opera; musical theater works
American Revolutionary songs
American literature and opera
American Theater, San Francisco
Amfiparnaso, L’ (The Lower Slopes of Parnassus—Vecchi)
Amico fido, L’
Amico Fritz, L’ (Mascagni)
Aminta (Tasso)
Ammalato immaginario, L’ (Molière)
Amor brujo, El (Falla)
Amor contrastato, ossia La molinara, L’ (Doubtful Love, or The Maid of the Mill—Paisiello); aka La molinara
Amor de Don Perlimplin con Belisa en su jardin (García Lorca)
Amore artigiano, L’ (Love among the Artisans—Gassmann)
Amore dei tre rè, L’ (The Love of Three Kings—Montemezzi)
Amori di Aci e Galatea, Gli (Orlandi)
Amor medico, o sia il Don Chisciotte (anonymous libretto)
Amor marinaro, L’ (Weigl)
Amour de loin, L’ (Love from Afar—Saariaho)
Amphion (Naumann)
Amsterdam, Holland
Andersen, Hans Christian
André, Johann
Andrea Chénier (Giordano)
Andriessen, Louis
Andromaca (Perez)
Andromeda (B. Ferrari)
Andromeda (Manelli)
Andromeda und Perseus (Corneille)
Anelli, Anelo
Anfossi, Pasquale
Angelica (Porpora)
Angelini-Bontempi, Giovanni Andrea
Angélique (Ibert)
Angiolini, Gasparo
Aniara (Blomdahl)
Aniara (Martinson)
Anima del filosofo, L’. See Orfeo ed Euridice (Haydn)
Animal Congress. See Animalen (Werle)
Animalen (Animal Congress—Werle)
Ankra, Turkey
Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
Anna Bolena (Romani)
Annapolis, Maryland
Anne, queen of England
Annette et Lubin (Favart)
Ansbach, Germany; court of
Anseaume, Louis
Ansky, Salomon
Antar (Dupont)
Antheil, George
Anthony Susan B.
Antony and Cleopatra (Barber)
Antigona (Traetta)
Antigonae (Orff)
Antigone (Honegger)
Antonio e Cleopatra (Malipiero)
Anush (Tigranyan)
Apel, Johann August
Apollinni, Giovanni
Apollon ja Marsyas (Rautavaara)
Apothecary, The. See Die Apotheke (Neefe)
Apotheke, Die (The Apothecary—Neefe)
appoggiatura(s)
Après-midi d’un faune, L’ (Debussy)
Arabella (R. Strauss)
Arabian Nights
aracoeli
Araia, Francesco
Arbore di Diana, L’ (Martín y Soler)
Arcadia
Arcadia (Sannazaro)
Arcadian academy, Rome
Archers,The (Dunlap and Carr)
Arensky, Anton Stepanovich
Aretusa (Vitali)
Arezzo, Italy
Argentina: national opera
Argento, Dominick
Argia (Cesti)
aria(s); first use of term in score; in early seventeenth-century opera; orchestral accompaniment of; continuo accompaniment of; distinction between recitative and; ostinato bass; obbligato instruments used with; in Steffani; in French opera; in early English opera; in eighteenth-century opera; with Italian texts, in German opera; all’unisoni accompaniment for; in opera seria; vocal ornamentation; in eighteenth-century reforms; of Gluck; in intermezzos; of Haydn; in Singspiel; of Mozart; in grand opera; of Rossini; orchestral announcement of; of Verdi; in German Romantic opera; of Wagner; of Bizet; of Puccini; of R. Strauss; of Schoenberg; in American opera; Broadway-sounding; in Chinese opera; see also comic airs (arias), da capo arias, strophic arias and songs; obbligato instruments
___types of: prayer; incantation; buffo; virtuoso; bravura; barcarole; siciliano; coloratura; martial; heroic; see also cantabile, cabaletta; cavatina
“Aria di Fiorenza, L’,”
Ariadne. See Die schöne und getreue Ariadne (Conradi)
Ariadne and Bacchus myth
Ariadne and Bluebeard. See Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Dukas)
Ariadne auf Naxos (Benda)
Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)
Ariadne or the Marriage of Bacchus. See Ariane ou le mariage de Bacchus (Cambert)
Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Balázs)
Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Ariadne and Blue-beard—Dukas)
Ariane ou le mariage de Bacchus (Ariadne or the Marriage of Bacchus—Cambert)
Arianna (Handel)
Arianna (Monteverdi); revival of
Arianna (Rinuccini)
Arianna e Teseo (Porpora)
Arianna in Nasso (Porpora)
Arianwen (Parry)
“aria opera”
ariettes
Arift khardakhutyunê (The Inspector General—Tchukhatjian)
Ariodant (Méhul)
Ariodante (Handel)
arioso; of Verdi and Wagner; style of, in R. Strauss
Ariosti, Attilio
Ariosto
Aristippe (Kreutzer)
Aristophanes
Aristotle; dramatic unities of
Arkas, Mykola
Arlecchino (Busoni)
Arlésienne, L’ (Bizet’s incidental music for)
Arlésienne, L’ (Daudet)
Armastus ja Surm (Love and Death—Lemba)
Arme Heinrich, Der (Poor Heinrich—Pfitzner)
Armenia: national opera
Armida (B. Ferrari)
Armida (Haydn)
Armida (Monteverdi)
Armida (Traetta)
Armida e Rinaldo (Sarti)
Armide (Gluck)
Armide (Jommelli)
Armide (Lully)
Armide (Quinault)
Arminio (Steffani)
Armonico pratico al cimbalo, L’ (Gasparini)
Armorer, The. See Der Waffenschmied (Lortzing)
Arne, Thomas Augustine
Arnhem, Holland
Arni, Erkki
Arnim, Achim von
Arnljot (Peterson-Berger)
Arnold, Matthew
Aroldo (Piave; Verdi)
Arrieta y Corera, Pascual Emilio
Arrigo, Girolamo
Ars gallica (device)
Arshak Erkrord (Arshak II—Tchukhatjian)
Arshak II. See Arshak Erkrord (Tchukhatjian)
Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus (Clayton)
Artaserse (Graun)
Artaserse (Hasse)
Artaserse (Metastasio)
Artaserse (Portugal)
Artaserse (Terradellas)
Artaserse (Vinci)
Artaxerxes (Arne)
Arthurian tetralogy
Arts Council Festival, Great Britain
Artus (Vives)
Ascanio (Lotti)
Ascanio (Saint-Saens)
Ascanio in Alba (Mozart)
Aschenbrödel (Cinderella—Blech)
Askoldova mogila (Askold’s Grave—Verstovsky)
Askold’s Grave. See Askoldova mogila (Verstovsky)
Aspern Papers,The (Argento)
Asrael (Franchetti)
Assassinio nella cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral—Pizzetti)
Association for Contemporary Music
Astianatte (G. Bononcini)
Astrologi immaginari, Gli (The Men Who Thought They Were Astrologers—Paisiello); aka Il filosofi immaginari
Atalanta (Handel)
At Dawn. See Lusabatsin (Step’anyan)
At Dawn. See Na uranku (Biničik)
Atenaide, L’ (M.A. Ziani, Negri, Caldara)
Athens, Greece
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlántida, La (Atlantis—Falla)
Atlantis. See La Atlántida (Falla)
atonality
Attack on the Mill, The. See L’ Attacque du moulin (Bruneau)
Attacque du moulin, L’ (The Attack on the Mill—Bruneau)
Atterberg, Kurt
At the Boar’s Head (HoIst)
Attila (Solera)
Attila (Verdi)
Attilio regolo (Metastasio)
Atys (Lully)
Atys (Piccinni)
Atzimba (Castro Herrera)
Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit; and America; influence on Wagner
Aucassin et Nicolette (Castelnuovo-Tedesco)
Auckland, New Zealand
Auden, William H.
audiences, twentieth-century;
Audran, Edmond
Audubon, John James
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Brecht)
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny—Weill)
Augsburg, Germany
Auletta, Pietro
aulos
Aureliano in Palmire (Rossini)
Auric, Georges
Aurora (Panizza)
Aus Deutschland (Out of Germany—Kagel)
Australia
Austria; see also Vienna
Author’s Farce,The (Fielding)
auto sacramentale (religious play)
Avapiés, El (Barrios and Campo y Zabaleta)
avant-garde: ideas and music; style
Aventures du Roi Pausole, Les (The Adventures of King Pausole—Honegger)
Avignon, France
Axur, re d’Ormus (Salieri)
ayre; see also aria
Ayrer, J.
Azara (Paine)
Azerbaijan, Republic of
azione scenica
azione teatrale
Azora, Daughter of Montezuma (Hadley)
Azzali, Augusto
Babbitt, Milton
Babes in Toyland (Herbert)
Bäbu, Der (Marschner)
Babylons Piramiden (Schikaneder)
Babylons Piramiden (The Pyramids of Babylon—Winter)
Bacchae, The (Euripides)
Bacchus worship
Bach, Johann Christian (“Milan” or “London” Bach); influence of
Bach, Johann Sebastian; dramatic works; late Baroque style of
Bäck, Sven-Erik
Bacon, Ernest
Badini, C. F.
Badoaro, Giacomo
bagpipes; in Verdi
Baini, Giuseppe
Baishe zhuan (The White Snake)
Bajadere, Die (The Yankee Princess—Kálmán)
Bajazet, Il (Gasparini)
Bakchantinnen, Die (Wellesz)
Balaguer, Victor
Balakirev, Mily Alekseyevich
Balázs, Béla
Balcony, The (Levy)
Balder’s Death. See Balders død (Johann Hartmann)
Balders død (Balder’s Death—Johann Hartmann)
Balfe, Michael William
Ballad of Baby Doe, The (Moore)
ballad(s); ballad tunes; songs, in style of; strophic; in Wagner; Appalachian
ballad opera(s); influence of, on Singspiel; in United States; in the style of
ballet(s); in seventeenth-century opera; term; texts of; in court spectacles; St. Didier on; of Pallavicino; in German opera; with machines; French; of Lully; in English opera; of Handel; of Rameau; in opera seria; of Gluck; elements of, in opera; in comic opera; of Mozart; in grand opera; in Berlioz; in lyric opera; of Verdi; of Ponchielli; of Wagner; of Delibes; in Russian opera; in Polish opera; in twentieth-century opera; with choruses; in Janáček; of Milhaud; of Falla; of Prokofiev; of Tippett; in American opera; of Still; of Bernstein; in China; see also opera-ballet
Ballet comique de la reine (aka Circé ou le Balet comique de la royne)
ballet de cour
Ballet de Flore (Lully)
Ballet et musique pour le divertissement du roy de la Grand-Bretagne (Cambert)
ballet héroique. See opéra-ballet
ballet opera
ballet-pantomime
ballet-Songspiel
balletto
ballo
“Ballo del Gran Duca,”
Ballo delle ingrate, Il (Monteverdi)
Ballo in maschera, Un (Somma)
Ballo in maschera, Un (A Masked Ball—Verdi)
ballo terzo
Baltic states
Baltimore, Maryland
Balzac, Honoré de
Bambini, Eustachio
Banchieri, Adriano
Bandanna (Hagen)
band concert music
bandoneon
Banister, John
banjo(s)
Bánk bán (Erkel)
Ban on Love, The. See Das Liebesverbot (Wagner)
Bantock, Granville
Banuta (A. Kalniņš)
Bar; See Bogen
Baranović, Krešimir
Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard—Ibert)
Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard—Offenbach)
Barber, Samuel
Barberillo de Lavapiés, El (The Barber of Lavapiés—Barbieri)
Barberini, Antonio
Barberini, Don Taddeo
Barberini, Francesco
Barberini, Maffeo; marriage of; see also Urban VIII
Barberini family
Barber of Bagdad, The. See Der Barbier von Bagdad (Cornelius)
Barber of Lavapiés. See El barberillo de Lavapiés (Barbieri)
Barber of Seville, The (Bishop)
Barber of Seville, The. See Il barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello)
Barber of Seville, The. See Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
Barbier, Auguste
Barbier, Jules
Barbier de Seville, Le (Beaumarchais)
Barbiere di Siviglia, Il (The Barber of Seville—Paisiello)
Barbiere di Siviglia, Il (The Barber of Seville—Rossini)
Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo
Barbieri, Gaetano
Barbier von Bagdad, Der (The Barber of Bagdad—Cornelius)
barcarole. See aria, types of
Barcelona, Spain
Bardi, Pietro de’
Bardi di Vernio, Giovanni
Bard of Freedom. See Vabaduse Laulik (Kapp)
Bärenhäuter, Der (The Bear-Skinner—S. Wagner)
Barfüssele (Little Miss Barefoot—Heuberger)
Bargagli, Girolamo
baritone singers; role(s) for;in opera seria; see also bass-baritone
Barker, J. N.
Bar-le-Duc, France
Barnett, John
Barone di Rocca Antica, Il (Salieri)
Baroque style: in librettos; in opera; of Scarlatti; pre-classical compared with; dynamics in; vocal ornamentation in; in early Spanish opera; in twentieth-century opera
Barrios, Angel
Bartay, Andreas
Bartered Bride, The. See Prodáná nevěsta (Smetana)
Bartholomew Fair
Bartók, Béla
Barton, Andrew
Basili, Basilio
Basoche, La (Messager)
Basque regional opera. See Spain
bass-baritone
bass singer(s); duo for; trio for; in opera seria
Bassarids, The (Henze)
basse de violon
basset clarinet(s)
basset-horn(s)
basset horns
Bassgeige, Der (The Bass-Viol—Kounadis)
basso continuo; realization of; earliest printed score with
bassoon(s)
Bass-Viol, The. See Der Bassgeige (Kounadis)
“bass violins à quatre”
Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart)
Bat, The. See Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss)
Battaglia di Legnano, La (The Battle of Legnano—Verdi)
Battle of the White Mountain
Battle of Legnano, The; La battaglia di Legnano (Verdi)
Battono alla porta (They Beat on the Door—R. Malipiero)
Baudelaire, Charles
Bavaria
Bayou Legend, A (Still)
Bayreuth, Germany; court of; festival of; theater at
Bayreuther Blätter (periodical)
Bazin, François
Beach, Amy
Beach of Falesá, The (Hoddinott)
Bear, The (Walton)
Bear-Skinner, The. See Der Bärenhäuter (S. Wagner)
Beaser, Robert
Beatrice (Hoiby)
Beatrice di Tenda (Bellini)
Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz)
Beatrix Cenci (Ginastera)
Beatrix Cenci (Różycki)
Beaujoyeulx, Balthasar de
Beaulieu, Lambert de
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron
Beaumont, Anthony
Beautiful and Faithful Ariadne,The. See Die schöne und getreue Ariadne (Conradi)
Beautiful Belinda, The. See Die schöne Belinda (H. Huber)
Beautiful Girl Asleep in the Forest, The. See La bella dormente nel bosco (Respighi)
Beautiful Helen, The. See La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
Beautiful Shoemaker’s Wife, The. See Die schöne Schusterin (Umlauf)
Beauty and the Beast:A Chamber Opera (Glover)
Beccari, Agostino
Beckmesser, Sixt
Beckwith, John
Bedford Gaol (J. Bunyan)
Beeson, Jack
Beethoven, Ludwig von; melodrama in; influence of French opera on; quartets of; influence of Enlightenment on; influence on Wagner; and America
Beggar’s Opera, The (Pepusch and Gay)
Beggar’s Opera, The (Guthrie and Britten adaptation of)
Beggar Student, The. See Der Bettlestudent (Millöcker)
Beggar Student, The; or, The Thunderstorm. See Der Bettlestudent oder das Donnerwetter (Winter)
Beginning of a Romance, The. See Počatek románu (Janáček)
Beijing, China
Beijing opera. See Peking opera
Beijing Opera Company of China
Bekker, Paul
Belasco, David
bel canto; Baroque style of
Belfagor (Respighi)
Belgium: national opera
Belkis (Respighi)
Belkiss (Coelho)
Bella dormente nel bosco, La (The Beautiful Girl Asleep in the Forest—Respighi)
Belle Hélène, La (The Beautiful Helen—Offenbach)
Bellérophon (Lully)
Bellini, Vincenzo; influence on German opera.; and America
bells
Bells of Corneville, The. See Les Cloches de Corneville—Planquette)
Bell Tower (Krenek)
Benda, Georg
Benedict, Julius
Beneficent Dervish, The. See Der wohltàtige Derwisch (Anonymous)
Benet, Stephen Vincent
Benjamin, Arthur
Benserade, Isaac de
Bentley, Eric
Benucci, Francesco
Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz)
Berezovsky, Maxim
Berg, Alban
Berg, Natanaël
Bergamo, Italy
Bergknappen, Die (The Miners—Umlauf)
Bergman, Erik
Bergsee, Der (The Mountain Lake—Bittner)
Bergsma, William
Bergtagna, Den (The Bride of the Mountain King—Hallström)
Bergwerke zu Falun, Die (The Miners at Falun—Hoffmann)
Berio, Lucio
Berkeley, Lennox
Berkoff, Steven
Berkuty. See Zolotry obruch (Lyatoshyns’ky)
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Opera House
Berliner Tageblatt
Berlioz, Hector; and Wagner; influence of Gluck on
Bernal Jiménez, Miguel
Bernanos, Georges
Bernardi, Francesco. See Senesino
Bernardon (created by Johann Kurz)
Berner, Lord
Bernhard, Christoph
Bernini, Cavaliero
Bernstein, Leonard
Bertali, Antonio
Bertati, Giovanni
Bertin, Louise
Berton, Henri-Montan
Berutti, Arturo
Berwald, Franz
Besuch der alten Dame, Der (Dürrenmatt)
Besuch der alten Dame, Der (The Old Lady’s Visit—Einem)
Betrothal in a Monastery, The. See Obruchenie v monastyre (Prokofiev)
Betterton, Thomas
Bettlestudent, Der (The Beggar Student—Millöcker)
Bettlestudent oder das Donnerwetter, Der (The Begger Student; or, The Thunderstorm—Winter)
Between Two Worlds (Ran)
Bhagavad-Gita
Bianconi, Loremzo
Biashe zhuan (White Snake)
biblical: stories; passages; see also oratorio (stage)
biblical themes
Bickerstaffe, Isaac
Biedermeier spirit of music
Bielsky, V. I.
Biennale di Venezia
“big band” sound
Bilby’s Doll (Floyd)
Billy Budd (Britten)
Billy Budd (Forster and Crozier)
Billy Budd, Foretopman (Melville)
Bíly pán, aneb Těžko se đnes duchům straší (The Gentleman in White, or No Haunts Left for Ghosts—Křička)
Biničik, Stanislav
Bird Dealer, The. See Der Vogelhändler (Zeller)
bird-man
Birth of Arthur, The (Boughton); see also The Round Table
Birth of the Lyre, The. See La Naissance de la lyre (Roussel)
Birthday of the Infanta, The (Wilde)
Birthday of the Infanta, The. See Der Geburtstag der Infantin (Schreker)
Birtwistle, Harrison
Birutė, incidental music for (Petrauskas)
Bis, Hippolyte
Bisanzio (Panizza)
Bishop, Henry Rowley
bitonality
Bitter Calm (C. Blake)
Bittner, Julius
Bizet, Georges
Blacher, Boris
black culture; casts; see also African Americans
Black Domino, The. See Le Domino noir (Auber)
Black Mask, The. See Die Schwarze Maske (Penderecki)
Black River, a Wisconsin Idyll (Susa)
Black Sea Sailors. See Chernomortsy (Lysenko)
Blacksmith of Ghent, The. See Der Schmied von Gent (Schreker)
Blaise le savetier (Philidor)
Blake, Christopher
Blake, David
Blake, Eubie
Blamont, Colin de
Blaue Reiter (group of painters)
Blech, Leo
Blitzstein, Marc
Bloch, Ernest
Blockx, Jan
Blomdahl, Karl-Birger
Blodwen (Parry)
Blond Eckbert (Weir)
Blood Wedding. See Die Bluthochzeit (Fortner)
Blount, Thomas
Blow, John
Bluebeard. See Barbe-Bleue (Ibert)
Bluebeard. See Barbe-Bleue (Offenbach)
Bluebeard’s Castle. See A Kékszakállú herceg vára (Bartók)
blues; rhythm of; see also jazz
Bluthochzeit, Die (Blood Wedding—Fortner)
Boatswain’s Mate, The (Smyth)
Bobrowski, Johannes
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Suppé)
Boccherini, Luigi
Bodas de sangre (Garcia Lorca)
Body, Jack
Boero, Felipe
Boësset, Antoine
Bogdan Khmel’nyts’ky (Dan’kevych)
Bogen/Bar form
Bohème, La (Puccini)
Bohemia; King of
Bohemian Girl,The (Balfe)
Bohémienne, La. See The Bohemian Girl (Balfe)
Bohemíos (Vives)
Boieldieu, François-Adrien
Boito, Arrigo
Bolcom, William
boleros
Bolivar (Milhaud)
Bologna, Italy
Bomarzo (Ginastera)
Bon Appetit! (Hoiby)
Bond, Christopher
Bond, Edward
Bonduca (Purcell)
Bonn, Germany
Bononcini, Antonio Maria
Bononcini, Giovanni
Bon Roi Dagobert, Le (The Good King Dagobert—Samuel-Rousseau)
Bonsoir, M. Pantalon (Good Evening, Monsieur Pantalon—Grisar)
Bontempi. See Angelini-Bontempi
Book of Ghosts. See Gespensterbuch (Apel and Laun)
Boor,The (Argento)
Booth Theater, New York City
Bordes, Charles
Bordoni, Faustina
Boris Godunov (Musorgsky); revisions of
Boris Godunov (Pushkin)
Borodin, Alexander Porfirievich
Borosini, Francesco
Borough, The (Crabbe)
borrowed material in operas; in Vivaldi; in Handel; in Keiser, in Gluck; in Mozart; in Beethoven; in Offenbach; in Donizetti; in Wagner; in Bizet; in Berio; in R. Strauss; in Weill; in Dessau; in Stockhausen; in Matthus; in Vaughan Williams; in Davies; in Argento; in Cage
Borrowing Matches. See Tulitikkuja lainaaamassa (Marttinen)
Bortnyansky, Dmitri
Bossi, Enrico
Bostel, Lucas von
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston University commission
Bouffonists
Boughton, Rutland
Bouilly, Jean Nicolas
Boulevard Solitude (Henze)
Bouře (The Tempest—Fibich)
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le (Molière and Lully)
Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le (Molière)
Bourges, France
Bourgmestre de Saradam le
bourrée
Bourrée fantasque (Chabrier)
Boustead, Alan
Boyarïnya Vera Sheloga (The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga—Rimsky-Korsakov)
Brahms, Johannes
Brand, Max
Brandeis Festival, Massachusetts
Brandenburgers in Bohemia, The. See Braniboři v Čechách (Smetana)
Brandts-Buys, Jan
Braniboři v Čechách (The Brandenburgers in Bohemia—Smetana)
brass instruments
Braun, Peter von
Braunschweig, Germany; Duke of
Brautwahl, Die (The Bridal Choice—Busoni)
Brave Man, The. See Il bravo (Mercadante)
Brave Nazar. See K’adj Nazar (Step’anyan)
Bravo, Il (The Brave Man—Mercadante)
bravura style. See aria
Bray, John
Brazil: national opera in
Bread and Bulls. See Pan y toros (Barbieri)
Breasts of Tiresias, The. See Les Mamelles de Tiresias (Poulenc)
Brebis égarée, La (The Lost Lamb—Milhaud)
Brecht, Bertolt
Bredal, N. K.
Bremen, Germany
Brenno (Reichardt)
Brentano, Clemens
Breslau, Germany
Bressand, Friedrich Christian
Breton de los Herreros, Manuel
Bretón y Hernández, Tomás
Bretzner, Christoph
Bridal Choice, The. See Die Brautwahl (Busoni)
Bridegroom of the Sea, The. See Il fidnazato del mare (Panizza)
Bride of Fortune (Whitehead)
Bride of Messima, The. See Nevěsta mesinská (Fibich)
Bride of the Mountain King, The. See Den Bergtagna (Hallström)
Bride of the Sea, The. See De Bruid der Zee (Blockx)
Briseïs (Chabrier)
Bristow, George Frederick
British Broadcasting Corporation
British Enchanters,The (Granville)
British Isles
Britten, Benjamin; influence on other composers
Brno, Czechoslovakia; Conservatory of Music
Broadway theaters, New York City; operettas in; musicals in; operas in; musical theater works in; new type of musical introduced; and Sondheim; Chinese operas in; see also musical; off Broadway theaters
Brod, Max
Bronner, Georg
Brönte, Emily
Bronwen. See The Cauldron of Annwn (Holbrooke)
Bronxville, New York
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Broschi, Carlo. See Farinelli
Broschi, Riccardo
Brossard, Sébastien de
Brosses, Charles de
Brothers, The (Antheil)
Brown, Alvin
Brown, John
Bruch, Max
Bruckner, Anton
Brueghel, Pieter the Elder
Bruid der Zee, De (The Bride of the Sea—Blockx)
Bruja, La (The Witch—Chapí y Lorente)
Brühl, Ignaz
Bruneau, Alfred
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Germany: court of
Brussels, Belgium; Brussels Exhibition
Bucci, Mark
Bucharest Opera
Büchner, Georg
Buch von der Meister-Singer (Wagenseil)
bucinae
Bud,The. See Poupé (Ostrčil)
Budapest, Hungary
Buenos Aires, Argentina
buffo aria(s); in style of Singspiel
buffo bass: singer(s); role(s)
buffo finale. See ensemble finale; finale
buffo opera. See opera buffa
buffo scenes; in Mozart
buffo style
Bühnenweihfestspiel
Bülow, Cosima von; see also Cosima Wagner
Bülow, Hans von
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Bungert, August
Bunt żaków (The Scholars’ Revolt—Szeligowsky)
Bunyan, John
Buona figliuola, La. See La Cecchina (Goldoni)
Buona figliuola, La (The Good Girl—Piccinni)
Buonarroti, Michelangelo
Buontalenti, Bernardo
Buon tempore, Il (Barbieri)
Buran (Vasilenko)
Burbero di buon cuore, Il (Martín y Soler)
Bürger Schippel (Sternheim)
Burgraves, Les (Hugo)
Bürgschaft, Die (The Pledge—Weill)
Burgtheater (Vienna)
Burian, Emil František
burlesque(s); songs in the style of; see also parody
burletta
Burnacini, Ludovico
Burney, Charles A.; on sacred drama in Italy; on Purcell; on vocal virtuosity; on castrati; on J. C. Bach; on Gluck
Burning Fiery Furnace,The (Britten)
Burns, Olive Ann
Burnt Orange. See Poltettu oranssi (Marttinen)
Burro do Senhor Alcaide, O (The Mayor’s Donkey—Cardoso)
Busenello, Giovanni Francesco
Bush, Alun Dudley
Busoni, Ferruccio
Bussani, Francesco
Byrd, William
Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron
Byzantine chant. See chant
cabaletta; see also cantabile, cavatina
Cabby as Count,The (Hofmannsthal)
cabaret, in the style of; cabaret operas
Cabildo (Beach)
Caccini, Francesca
Caccini, Giulio
cadenzas; of Mozart; notated
Cadman, Charles Wakefield
Cadmus et Hermione (Lully)
Caduta de’ decemviri, La (The Fall of Ten Men—A. Scarlatti)
Caedmar (Bantock)
Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano)
Cage, John; influence on other composers
Cagnoni, A.
Caïd, Le (Thomas)
Cain, John
Cairo, Egypt
Cajo Fabricio (Majo)
Calandro (Ristori)
calaseras
Caldara, Antonio
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Caldwell, James
Caldwell, Sarah
Caletti-Bruni, Pier Francesco. See Cavalli
calletto (page boy)
Calvery (Pasatieri)
Calzabigi, Ranieri de
Camacho’s Wedding. See Hochzeit des Camacho (Mendelssohn)
Cambert, Robert; influence of, on other composers
Cambiale di matrimonio, La (The Marriage Contract—Rossini)
camerata (camerate). See Florence, Italy
Camilla. See Il trionfo di Camilla
Camilla, or The Tunnel. See Camilla, ossia Il sotterano (Paer)
Camilla, ossia Il sotterano (Camilla; or The Tunnel—Paer)
Cammarano, Salvatore
Campana sommersa, La (The Sunken Bell—Respighi)
Campion, Thomas
Campo y Zabaleta, Conrado del
Campra, André
Canada
Canadian Opera Company
canaries (dance)
Candide (Bernstein)
Candid Minnie. See Minnie la candida (R.Malipiero)
Cannabich, Christian
canon(s); canonic trio; crab, in Berg; retrograde, in Hindemith
cantabile: melody; aria;
cantabile-mezzo-cabaletta; see also scene structure
cantilena style
cantata(s); of Stradella; of Bach; of Scarlatti; of Handel; of Dvořák; of Debussy; of Milhaud; of Orff; of Prokofiev; scenic, of Falla
Cantata on the Death of Joseph II (Beethoven)
Canterbury Pilgrims,The (Stanford)
Canterina, La (The Singer—Haydn)
Canterina, La (The Singer—Piccinni)
Canterville Ghost,The (Wilde)
Canti di liberazione (Songs of Liberation—Dallapiccola)
Canti di prigionia (Songs of the Prison—Dallapiccola)
Canton, China; opera style in
canzona; see also overture
canzonets
Čapek, Josef
Čapek, Karel
Capitán, El (Sousa)
Capoccio and Dorinna (Galliard)
Caprices of Callot, The. See I capricci di Callot (Malipiero)
Capricci di Callot, I (The Caprices of Callot—G. F. Malipiero)
Capriccio (R. Strauss)
Capture of Troy, The. See La Prise de Troie (Berlioz)
Cara Mustapha (J. W. Franck)
Cardillac (Hindemith)
Cardillac (Lyon)
Cardoso, Domingo Cyriaco de
Carestini, Giovanni
Carey, Henry
cariacature, in Berg; in Walton
Carissimi, Giacomo
Carlo Emanuele, duke of Savoy
Carl Rosa Opera Company
Carlsbad
Carmen (Bizet)
Carmen Jones (Bizet; Hammerstein II)
Carmina burana (Orff)
Carnaval de Venise, Le (Campra)
Carneval in Rom (J. Strauss)
Carnival, season of; in Venice; in Vienna
“Caro Sassone, Il.” See Hasse
Carosse du Saint-Sacrement, Le (Berner)
Carr, Benjamin
Carré, Michel
Carrie Nation (Moore)
Carte, Richard D’Oyly
Casanova, Jacques
Casanova (Różycki)
Casanova’s Homecoming (Argento)
Casanova’s Homecoming (Schnitzler)
Casella, Alfredo
Caserio, El (The Hamlet—Guridi)
Casino Paradise (Bolcom)
Caspar, Franz Xavier von
Caspar och Dorothea (Uttini)
castanets
Castaway (Berkeley)
Castello di Kenilworth, Il (Donizetti)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
Castle Aymon, or the Four Brothers, The (Balfe)
Castor et Pollux (Rameau)
castrato (castrati); improvisation by; in comic opera; disappearance of; Meyerbeer’s use of; Rossini’s use of
Castro Herrera, Riccardo
Catalani, Alfredo
Catalina di Guisa (Paniagua)
Catalonia regional opera. See Spain
Catán, Daniel
Catel, Charles-Simon
Catena d’Adone, La (The Chain of Adonis—Mazzocchi)
Catharina en Lambert (Linden)
Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia
Catone in Utica (Höpken)
Catone in Utica (Metastasio)
Caudella, Eduard
Cauldron of Annwn,The (Holbrooke)
Cavalieri, Emilio de’
Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry—Mascagni)
Cavalleria rusticana (Verga)
Cavalli (Pier Francesco Caletti-Bruni)
cavatina (or cantabile); defined; scheme of, in Graun
cavatina-cabaletta (aria)
Cave, The (Reich)
Caverne, La (Le Sueur)
Cavos, Catterino
Cecchina, ossia La buona figliuola, La (Goldoni)
celesta(es)
Cellini, Benvenuto
Celos aun del aire matan (Jealousy, Even From the Breeze, Kills—Hildago)
Celos hacen estrellas, Los (Jealousy Produces Stars—Vélez de Guevara)
Celtic: legend; literature
cembalo
Cena delle beffe, La (The Feast of Jests—Giordano)
Cendrillon (Cinderella—Isouard)
Cendrillon (Cinderella—Massenet)
Cenerentola, La (Cinderella—Rossini)
censorship: in France; Italy; in Czechoslovakia; Germany; Soviet Union
Central Conservatory, Beijing
Central Europe
Central Park: a trilogy—The Festival of Regrets; Strawberry Fields; The Food of Love
Cephalus and Procris. See Tsefal i Prokris (Araia)
Čert a Káčra (The Devil and Kate—Dvořák)
Čertova stěna (The Devil’s Wall—Smetana)
Ceruti, Rogue
Cervantes de Saavedra, Miguel de
Cesare amante, Il (Cesti); see also La Cleopatra
Cesare e Cleopatra (Graun)
Česky Krumlov, Bohemia
Cesti, Pietro Antonio; as priest; motto beginning in; bravura aria in
Chabrier, Emmanuel
chaconne; in Rameau; in Gluck
Chadwick, George Whitefield
Chain of Adonis,The. See La catena d’Adone (Mazzocchi)
Chalet, Le (Adam)
chalumeaux
chamber (instrumental) ensemble
chamber operas; first use of term on a published score
Chambonnières, Jacques Champion de
Chandos, Duke of
Changsheng dian (The Palace of Eternal Youth)
chansons
chant: Gregorian; Ukranian; plainsong; Jewish; Byzantine; Greek Orthodox; Haitian
Chant de la cloche, Le (The Song of the Bell—D’Indy)
Chao Family Orphan, The (Yuan dynasty play)
Chapelmaster, The. See Le Maître de chapelle (Paer)
Chapí y Lorente, Ruperto
characters: stock (type); drawn from life; types of; mute; in Chinese opera; see also comic character type
Charlatan. See Šarlatán (P. Haas)
Charlatan, The. See Il Ciarlatano (D. Puccini)
Charlatan, The (Sousa)
Charles I, king of England
Charles II, king of England
Charles VI, emperor (Habsburg)
Charles IX, king of France
Charles X, king of France
Charles XI, king of Sweden
Charleston (dance)
Charleston, South Carolina
Charmed Bullet, The. See Der Freischütz (Neuner)
Charmed Bullet, The. See Der Freischütz (Weber)
Charodeyka (The Enchantress—Tchaikovsky)
Charpentier, Gustave
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
Chartreuse de Parme, Le (Sauguet)
Chateaubriand, François René, Viconte de
Chattering Women. See Cicalamento delle donne (Striggio, the elder)
Chausson, Ernest
Chekhov, Anton
Chelsea, England; see also Priest
Cherevichki (The Slippers—Tchaikovsky); see also Vakula the Smith
Chernomortsy (Black Sea Sailors—Lysenko)
Cherokee, The (Storace)
Chetwood, W. R.
Cherubini, Maria Luigi; influence of Gluck on; influence on German Romantic opera; operas of, in Vienna; and Académie Royale de Musique
Chézy, Helmine von
Chiabrera, Gabriello
Chicago, Illinois
Child, Julia
Child and the Sorceries, The. See L’Enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel)
Child God,The (Lam)
Child King, The. See L’Enfant roi (Bruneau)
Child Prodigy,The. See L’Enfant prodigue (Debussy)
Children of Don, The. See The Cauldron of Annwn (Holbrooke)
children’s chorus
children’s (and young adults’) opera
Chilpéric (Hervé)
Chimney Sweep, The. See Der Rauchfangkehrer (Salieri)
China: music of; national opera (xiqu); see also Chinese opera
Chineisches Fabel. See Turandot (Busoni)
Chinese-American composers
Chinese drama: types of
Chinese Hero, The. See L’eroe cinese (Uttini)
Chinese Ladies, The. See Le Cinesi (Gluck)
Chinese language
Chinese music: in opera of New Zealand; in American opera
Chinese opera; styles of; regional styles of; influence on Western countries; Peking style of; role categories for; singing style in; instruments for; Cantonese style of; in Shanghai; revolutionary; ritual style of; nuo style of
Chinese themes in Western operas
Chi soffre speri (Rospigliosi)
Chi soffre speri (Who Suffers May Hope—Mazzocchi and Marazzoli); revised; aka L’Egisto
chitarrone
Chocolate Dandies (E. Blake and Sissle)
Chocolate Soldier, The. See Der tapfere Soldat (Strauss)
Choéphores, Les (The Libation Bearers—Milhaud)
Chopin, Frédéric
choral ballet
chorale(s)
choral group (dithyrambs)
choral music: for French festivals; in Wagner.
choral ritornellos
choral scene(s); in Mozart; in D’Indy; in Shostakovich; in Delius; in Vaughan Williams; in Weill
choregos (choryphaios)
choric dance
chorus (choral numbers); in Greek drama; as articulate spectator; in mysteries; in ballet; in intermedi; a cappella; in sacred drama; of Gagliano; ritornello style; madrigal style; in seventeenth-century opera; disappearance of; in German pastorales; of Lully; of Purcell; of lamentation; in opera seria; in French opera; of Fux; of Gluck; of Mozart; of Cherubini; in French opera; in early nineteenth-century opera; of Wagner; of Berlioz; of Auber; in grand opera; of Rossini; of Donizetti; of Verdi; in German Romantic opera; of Weber; in French opera; a capella; in Russian opera; and dance in Czech opera; offstage; in Spanish opera; of Honegger; of Milhaud; of Messiaen; in Italian opera; in twentieth-century German opera; of Prokofiev; in Czech opera; in Polish opera; Handelian style of; in Falla; of Holbrooke; of Holst; wordless, in Vaughan Williams; of Britten; as protagonist; in American opera; of Gershwin; of Blitzstein; of Weisgall; of Argento; of Glass; of Adams; see also choregos
Christian element(s) in opera
Christian V, king of Denmark
Christiana (Oslo), Norway
Christina, queen of Sweden
Christina (Gefors)
Christine of Lorraine
Christmas Carol, A (Musgrave)
Christmas Eve. See Rizdv’yana nich (Lysenko)
Christmas Eve. See Noch pered rozhdestvom (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Christophe Colomb (Milhaud)
Christopher Sly (Argento)
Christ Recrucified (Kazantzakis)
Christus am Ölberg (Beethoven)
chromaticism; in Berlioz; in Wagner; in Catalani; in Rimsky-Korsakov; in Montemezzi
Chueca, Federico
Chumats’ky shlyakh (The Galaxy—Zubyts’ky)
church drama
church (liturgical) music; of A. Scarlatti; Schola Cantorum; Russian, in Musorgsky; in Rimsky-Korsakov; in Spanish opera; of Milhaud; in R. Strauss; in Zimmermann; Russian style of, in Polish opera; in the style of Serbian; in Britten; see also chant; hymns; spirituals
church operas
church scenes: in grand opera
Chute de la maison Usher, La (The Fall of the House of Usher—Debussy)
Ciampi, Legrenzio Vincenzo
Ciarlatano, Il (The Charlatan—D. Puccini)
Cibber, Colley
Ciboulete (Hahn)
Cicalamento delle donne (Striggio, the elder)
Cicéri, Pierre
Cicognini, Giacinto Andrea
Cicognini, Jacopo
Cid, De (Wagenaar)
Cid, El, legend of
Cid, Le (Massenet)
Cifra, La (The Cipher—Salieri)
Cifuentes. Santos
Cilèa, Francesco
Cilla,La (Fazzioli)
Cilla, La (Tullio)
Cimarosa, Domenico; in Russia
cimbalon
Cincinnati, Ohio; Cincinnati Opera
Cinderella. See fairy-tale
Cinderella (Bishop)
Cinderella. See Aschenbrödel (Blech)
Cinderella. See Cendrillon (Isouard)
Cinderella. See Cendrillon (Massenet)
Cinderella. See La Cenerentola (Rossini)
cinematic technique; see also film
Cinesi, Le (The Chinese Ladies—Gluck)
Cinesi, Le (Metastasio)
The Cipher. See La cifra (Salieri)
Circe (Keiser)
Circé ou le Balet comique de la royne. See Ballet comique de la reine
Cirillo, Francesco
Ciro (Gasparini)
Ciro riconosciuto (Cyrus Recognized—Sarti)
Cisterna do diablo, A (The Devil’s Cistern—Cossoul)
cithers
Citizen of Paradise (Floyd)
City Center Opera Company, New York City
Civetta, La (The Owl—V. Mazzocchi)
Clapisson, Antoine-Louis
clapper operas; see also Chinese opera
Clari, The Maid of Milan (Bishop)
clarinet(s); works for; tenor; clarinetist as mime-instrumentalist; bass; see also basset-horns
clarino
Clarke, Richard
classical style and/or form; twentieth-century return to
classicism; in subject matter of opera; Viennese style of
Claudel, Paul
Claudine von Villa Bella (Goethe).
Claudine von Villa Bella (Reichardt)
Claudius (Keiser)
clavicembalo
Clayton, Thomas
Clé des songes, La (Neveux)
Clemency of Scipio, The. See La clemenza di Scipione (J. C. Bach)
Clément, Felix
Clement IX, pope.See also G.Rospigliosi
Clementino (seminary), Rome
Clemenza di Scipione, La (The Clemency of Scipio—J. C. Bach)
Clemenza di Tito, La (Metastasio)
Clemenza di Tito, La (The Clemency of Titus—Gluck)
Clemenza di Tito, La (The Clemency of Titus—Mozart)
Clemenza di Tito, La (The Clemency of Titus—Naumann)
Cleofide (Hasse)
Cleopatra, La (Cesti); see also Il Cesare amante
Cleopatra (Mattheson)
Cleopatra’s Night (Hadley)
Cleveland, Ohio
Clifton, Arthur
Clitennestra (Pizzetti)
Cloak, The. See Il tabarro (Puccini)
Cloches de Corneville, Les (The Bells of Corneville—Planquette)
Clochette (Duni)
Clockmaker, The (Harris)
Cloris und Tirsis (Keiser)
Clotilda (pasticcio)
Clotilde (F. Conti)
Clowns, The. See I pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Coachman, The. See Yamshchiki na podstave (Fomin)
Coates, Albert
Cobzar, Le (Ferrari)
Cocchi, Gioacchino
Cocteau, Jean
Coelho, Rui
Coeur du moulin, Le (The Heart of the Mill—Séverac)
Cofanaria, La (Ambra)
“Coffee cantata” (J. S. Bach)
Coffey, Charles
Cohan, George, M.
Coignet, Horace
Colas et Colinette (Quesnel)
Colasse, Pascal
Cold Sassy Tree (Floyd)
Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette de Jouvenal)
Collapse of the World, The. See Die Erschöpfung der Welt (Kagel)
Collecta ceremony
collèges
Collegio Germanio, Rome
Collet, Henri
Collingwood, Lawrence Arthur
Colmal (Winter)
Cologne, Germany
Cologne Course for New Music
Colonel Jonathan the Saint (Argento)
coloratura; in seventeenth-century Roman opera; in Auber; in Herold; in Rossini; see also ornamentation
Coltellini, Marco
Columba (Mackenzie)
Columbia University, New York City
Columbia University Opera Workshop, New York City
Columbus (Egk)
Columbus, Christopher; subject of opera
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorina, Il (Monteverdi)
comedia harmonica
Comedia ridicula (A Ridiculous Comedy—Draghi)
comédie
comédie-ballet; see also comedy ballet; opéra-ballet
Comédie Francaise
Comédie-Italienne; see also Théâtre Italien
comédie lyrique. See opéra-ballet
comédie mêlée d’ariettes
comedy: Greek; Roman; in the mysteries; madrigal; Italian pastorale; in seventeenth-century opera; romantic; Italian, in German opera; spoken, in Singspiel; with popular songs; in Chinese opera; see also comic opera; opera buffa
comedy ballet; see also comédie-ballet; Liederspiel
Comedy on the Bridge. See Veselohra na mostě (Martinů)
Comedy Overture on Negro Themes (Gilbert)
comic airs (arias)
comic ballet. See comédie-ballet
comic bass. See buffo bass
comic character(s); types of: servant; page; maid-in-waiting; old nurse; governess; stutterer; servant-lover pair
comic opera; eighteenth-century; in Neapolitan dialect; in Russia; national forms of; parody of opere serie; types of librettos; combined with serious; in France; in England; masterpieces of; Japanese subjects in; nineteenth-century; in Hungary; in Denmark; in Sweden; in Spain; in Portugual; in Latin America; in America; twentieth-century; in China. See also ballade opera; opera buffa; opéra comique; operetta; Singspiel; zarzuela
comic scenes; in Monteverdi; in A, Scarlatti; in eighteenth-century opera, abolished; in Stampiglia; in Conti; intermingled with serious; as intermezzos
Comical Prinz Jodelet, The. See Der lächerliche Prinz Jodelet (Keiser)
commedia dell’arte; influence on comic opera; masks of; in twentieth-century opera
commedia in musica
commedia per musica
Commodo, Il (A. Landi)
Communication to My Friends, A (R. Wagner)
Communist Party
Compagnia del Gonfalone
Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique française (Le Cerf de la Viéville)
Composers Union, Russia
computer-generated: imagery; printouts of I Ching
Comte Ory, Le (The Count Ory—Rossini)
Comtesse d’Escarbagnas, La (Molière)
Comus (Arne)
Comus (Lawes)
Comus (Milton)
concertizing instruments; see also obbligato instruments
concerto(s), of Mozart
concerto grosso; style of
concerto principle
Condemnation of Lucullus, The. See Die Verurteilung des Lukullus (Dessau)
conductus
Confrérie de la Passion
Conquest of the Desert, The. See Il deserto tentato (Casella)
Conradi, Johann Georg
Conroy ke i kopies tou, O (Conroy’s Other Selves—Koukos)
Conroy’s Other Selves. See O Conroy ke i kopies tou (Koukos)
Consolation of Scholarship, The (Weir)
Constancy and Fortitude. See Costanza e fortezza (Fux)
Constantinescu, Paul
Constantine Palaeologue, or They Took the City. See Konstantinos o Palaeologos, i Piran tin Poli (Kalomiris)
Consul, The (Menotti)
Contadina in corte, La (Sacchini)
Conte d’Essex, Il (Mercadante)
Contes d’Hoffmann, Les (The Tales of Hoffmann—Offenbach)
Contessina, La (The Countess—Gassmann)
Conti, Francesco Bartolomeo; intermezzos of influence on Telemann; overtures of
Continuation des amours (Ronsard)
continuo accompaniment; see also basso continuo
continuo instruments
contrabass viol
contrafactum; see also Pianto della Madonna
contrapuntal tradition; style, in Russian opera
contrebasse
contredanse
Contrivances, The (Carey)
Converse, Frederick Shepherd
Conversione di S. Guglielmo, La (Pergolesi)
Convitato di pietra, Il (Bertati)
Convitato di pietra, Il (The Stone Guest—Gazzaniga)
Cook, Will Marion
Cooke, Captain Henry
Cooper, Martin
Copenhagen, Denmark: Keiser at; court of; first public opera house; Copenhagen Castle’s court theater
Copland, Aaron
coplas (strophic songs)
Coppélia (Delibes)
Coppola, P.A.
Cora och Alonza (Naumann)
corago
Corago, Il; see also P. Rinuccini
Corbett, William
Corder, Frederick
Corelli, Arcangelo
Corfu, Greece
Corigliano, John
Coriolanus (Beethoven’s incidental music to)
Cornacchiolo, Giacinto
Corneille, Pierre
Cornelius, Peter
cornemuse(s)
cornett(s)
cornetto
Cornetto, Antonio dal
Coronation of Poppea, The. See L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
Coronazione di Poppea, La (libretto)
Corregidor, Der (Wolf)
Corsair, The. See Il corsaro (Verdi)
Corsaro, Il (The Corsair—Piave; Verdi)
Corselli, Francesco
Corsi, Jacopo; palace of
Corteccia, Francesco
Cortez, Hernando
Cosa rara, Una (A Rare Thing—Martín y Soler)
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers—Mozart)
Cosimo I, duke of Florence
Cosimo II, grand duke of Tuscany
Cossack Beyond the Danube, A. See Zaporozhets za Dunayem (Gulak-Artemovsky)
Cossacks, The. See Kosakkerne (Elling)
Cossoul, Guilherme
Costa, Michael
Costanza e fortezza (Constancy and Fortitude—Fux)
costumes
Council of Trent
Count Ory. See Le Comte Ory (Rossini)
countertenor role
Countess, The. See Hrabrina (Moniuszko)
Countess, The. See La contessina (Gassmann)
Country, The. See Le Pays (Ropartz)
Country Doctor, The. See Ein Landarzt (Henze)
Country Girl in Love, A. See A saloia namorada (Portugal)
Couperin, François
couplets; defined
Course of Time, The. See Der Jahreslauf (Stockhausen)
Cousser. See Kusser
Covent Garden, London
Cowen, Frederick
Cox and Box (Sullivan)
Crabbe, George
Cradle Will Rock, The (Blitzstein)
Crane Feathers, The. See Tranfijädrarna (Bäck)
Creation, Fall, and Redemption of Man, The. See Der erschafene, gefallene, und wieder auf gerichtete Mensch (Theile)
Cree (language), use of in opera
Cremona, Italy
Cremonai Hegeđüs, A (The Luthier of Cremona—Hubay)
crescendo, Rossinian type of
Cricket on the Hearth, The (Mackenzie)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
Cris du monde (Honegger)
Crispino e la comare (L. and R. Ricci)
Cristina of Lorraine (mother of Cosimo II)
Cristoforo Colombo (Franchetti)
Critica musica (Mattheson)
“Critical Discourse … in England”
Croatia: national opera
Crociato in Egitto, Il (The Crusade in Egypt—Meyerbeer)
Croesus (Keiser). See Der hochmütige, gestürtzte und wieder erhabene Croesus (Keiser)
Croesus Haughty, Overthrown, and Again Raised Up. See Der hochmütige … Croesus (Keiser)
Cronaca del luogo (Berio)
cross fading technique, in Britten
crowd scenes; in grand opera; in Wagner; in Russian opera
Crown Bride, The. See Kronbruden (Raugström)
Crown Diamonds. See Les Diamants de la couronne (Auber)
Crozier, Eric
Crucible, The (Miller)
Crucible, The (Ward)
Crusaders, The. See Kreuzfahrer (Spohr)
Crusade in Egypt, The. See Il crociato in Egitto (Meyerbeer)
Crusell, Bernard Henrik
Cry, the Beloved Country (Paton)
Csárdásfürstin (Kálmán)
Csavargó és királylány, A (The Vagabond and the Princess—Poldini)
Csel (The Trick—Bartay)
Cubism and opera
cubo-futurist opera
Cuclin, Dimitrie
Cud mniemany, czyli Krakowiacy i górale (The Supposed Miracle, or Krakovians and Mountaineers—Stefani)
Cui, César Antonovich
Cultural Revolution, China
Cunning Little Vixen, The. See Přihođylišky Bystroušky (Janáček)
Cunning Peasant, The. See Šelma sedlák (Dvořák)
Cupid and Death (Shirley)
Cupid and Psyche, story of
Curious Ladies, The. See Le donne curiose (Wolf-Ferrari)
“curlew marks”
Curlew River (Britten)
current events and opera; see also politics and opera
Curro Vargas (Vargas the Dandy—Chapí y Lorente)
Cusser. See Kusser
Cuzzoni, Francesca
cymbals
Cymbeline (Shakespeare)
Cyrano (Beeson)
Cyrus Recognized. See Ciro riconosciuto (Sarti)
Czar. See Tsar
Czar and Carpenter. See Zar und Zimmermann (Lortzing)
Czar Let Himself Be Photographed, The. See Der Zar lässt sich photographieren (Weill)
Czechoslovak Republic
Czechoslovakia; see also Prague
Czech Revolution (1848)
Czinka Panna (Kodály)
da capo arias; of Cesti; of Draghi; of Pallavicino; of Steffani; of Scarlatti; of Handel; in Italian opera: old/new style; in opera seria; of Hasse; scheme of; in English opera; melodrama and; in early Spanish opera; see also aria; ornamentation
Dafne (Angelini-Bontempi and Peranda)
Dafne (M. Gagliano)
Dafne (Peri)
Dafne (Rinuccini)
Dafne (Schütz)
Dahlhaus, Carl
Dalayrac, Nicolas
Dalibor (Smetana)
Dallapiccola, Luigi
Dal male il bene (Good from Evil—Abbatini and Marazzoli)
Dal male il bene (Rospigliosi)
Dalmaro (Gotovac)
Dama duende, La (Calderón de la Barca)
Dame aux camélias, La (Dumas the Younger)
Dame blanche, La (The White Lady—Boieldieu)
Damnation de Faust, La (Berlioz)
Damrosch, Leopold
Damrosch, Walter
Danaïdes, Les (Salieri)
dances(s); choral; entries; choric; in mysteries; instrumental; in Lully’s operas; in Purcell; in Rameau; in Russian opera; in Czech opera; Spanish; in German opera; native, in Latin American opera; in Britten; native, of New Zealand; Afro-American, with singing; in musicals; in American opera; sixteenth-century; see also ballet, Charleston, foxtrot, rhumba, waltz
dance-drama; in China
Dancing-School. See Tanz-Schul (Kagel)
Dangerous Liaisons, The (Susa)
Daniel. See Danielis Ludus
Danielis Ludus (The Play of Daniel)
Dan’kevych, Konstyantyn
D’Annunzio, Gabrielle
Dante, Alighieri
Danton’s Death. See Dantons Tod (Einem)
Dantons Tod (Büchner)
Dantons Tod (Danton’s Death—Einem)
Daphne (R. Strauss)
Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel)
Da Ponte, Lorenzo
Darby’s Return (Dunlap)
Dardanus (Rameau)
Dargomïzhsky, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
Darmstadt, Germany: composers’ group of
Das war ich (That Was I—Blech)
Daudet, Alphonse
Daughter of the Earth, The. See La Fille de la terre (Séverac)
Daughter of Rappaccini, The. See La hija de Rappaccini (Catán)
Daughter of the Regiment, The. See La Fille du régiment (Donizetti)
Daughters of the Fatherland. See Isänmaan tyttäet (Kuusisto)
Davenant, William
David, Félicien
David (Milhaud)
David (Schürmann)
David-Bek (Tigranyan)
David et Jonathas (M.-A. Charpentier)
Davies, Peter Maxwell; influence on other composers
Davis, Anthony
Davis, John
Day of Peace. See Friedenstag (R. Strauss)
Dead City, The. See Die tote Stadt (Korngold)
Dead Man Walking (Heggie)
Death in Venice (Britten)
Death in Venice (Mann)
Death of Adam, The. See La Mort d’Adam (Le Sueur)
Death of Klinghoffer, The (Adams)
Death of Orpheus, The. See La mort d’Orfeo (Landi)
Dèbora e Jaéle (Pizzetti)
Debussy, Claude; influence of other composers on
Decameron (Boccaccio)
Decision, The (Musgrave)
declamation; union; in Verdi; in Wagner; in Russian opera; in Czech opera; in Honegger; in French opera; in Pizzetti; in Orff; in Prokofiev; in Britten
Defrancaschi, C. P.
Dehn, Paul
Deianira, La, (Leonetti)
Deidamia (Handel)
Deinhardstein, Johann Ludwig
Deirdre (Willan)
Dejanice (Catalani)
DeJong, Constance
De Koven, Reginald
Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor-Eugène
Delannoy, Marcel
De Lara, Isidore
Delia (Manelli)
Delibes, Léo
Délire, Le (Berton)
Delius, Frederick
Déliverance de Thésée, La (The Rescue of Theseus—Milhaud)
Della-Maria, Pierre-Antonine-Dominique
Dello Joio, Norman
Deluge, The. See Tuhotulva (Krohn)
Demiriz, Okan
Demofoonte (Jommelli)
Demofoonte (Leo)
Demofoonte (Metastasio)
Demofoonte (pasticcio)
Demon (The Demon—Rubenstein)
Demon, The. See Demon (Rubinstein)
Démophon (Cherubini)
Denmark: national opera
Dent, Edward J.
Departure, The. See Abreise (D’Albert)
descriptive symphonies
Désert, Le (David)
Déserteur, Le (Monsigny)
Desertion of Adriadne, The. See L’ Abandon d’Ariane (Milhaud)
Deserto tentato, Il (The Conquest of the Desert—Casella)
Desmarest, Henry
Des Moines Metro Opera, Iowa
Dessau, Paul
Destouches, André-Cardinal
Detskaya (The Nursery—Musorsky)
De Triomfeerende min (Love’s Triumph—Hacquart)
deus ex machina
Deutsche Gedichte … Gedancken von der Opern (Feind)
Deutsche Mythologie, Die (J. and F. Grimm)
Deutsche Oper, Die (Wagner)
Deutsches Theater (Berlin)
Deux Journées, Les (Bouilly)
Deux Journées, Les (The Two Days—Cherubini); see also Der Wasserträger
Deux Petits Savoyards, Les (The Two Little Savoyards—Dalayrac)
Devienne, François
Devil and Daniel Webster, The (Moore)
Devil and Kate, The. See Čert a Káča (Dvořák)
Devil’s Cistern, The. See A cisterna do diablo (Cossoul)
Devil in the Belfry, The (Poe)
Devils of Loudon, The (Penderecki)
Devil’s Wall, The. See Čertova stěna (Smetana)
Devil Take Her, The (Benjamin)
Devil to Pay, The; or, The Wives Metamorphos’d (Coffey); see also afterpiece
Devin du village, Le (The Village Soothsayer—Rousseau)
Devise; Devisenaria; see also motto beginning
Devrient, Eduard
Dezède, Nicolas
Diadem (Talma)
dialect; Neapolitan;
Galician; Gullah
Dialogo della music antica e della moderna (Galilei)
dialogue (spoken); in Greek drama; in pastourelles; in English masque; in early German opera; in comedy-ballet; in English opera; in A. Scarlatti; in comic opera; in comedy ballets; in comédie mélée;in opéra comique; in ballad opera; in Mozart; in German opera; as distinction separating opéra comique from regular opera; in “rescue” operas; in operetta; in lyric opera; in opera semiseria; in Weber; in Bizet; parlando; in Russian opera; in other national operas; in zarzuelas; in early American opera; in French opera; in R. Strauss; in twentieth-century opera; in Chinese opera
dialogue duet
“Dialogue about Ancient and Modern Music”; see Dialogo (Galilei)
Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc)
Diamantes de la couronne, Les (Crown Diamonds—Auber)
Diana Ridiculed. See Diana schernita (Cornacchioli)
Diana schernita (Diana Ridiculed—Cornacchioli)
Diarmid (MacCunn)
Dibdin, Charles
Dibdin, George
Dibuk, Il (The Dybbuk—Rocca)
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson College
Dickinson, Emily
Diderot, Denis
Dido (Lavrangas)
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Dido and Aeneas (Tate)
Didon (Desmarest)
Didon (Piccinni)
Didone (Busenello)
Didone (Cavalli)
Didone abbandonata (Hasse)
Didone abbandonata (Jommelli)
Didone abbandonata (Metastasio)
Didone abbandonata (Traetta)
Didone abbandonata (Vinci)
Didron, Adolphe
digital opera
Dimitrij (Dvořák)
D’Indy, Vincent. See Indy, Vincent d’
Dinner Engagement, The (Berkeley)
Dinorah, oder der Wallfahrt nach Plöermel (Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploermel—Meyerbeer); see also Le Pardon de Plöermel
Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploermel. See Dinorah, oder der Wallfahrt nach Plöermel (Meyerbeer); see also Le Pardon de Ploermel
Dioclesian (Purcell)
Diocletiano (Pallavicino)
Dirce, figlia di Aristodemo (Padovanus)
Disappointment, The; or, The Force of Credulity (Barton)
Disgrazie d’Amore, Le (The Undeceived—Cesti)
disguise; see also mistaken identities
Disingannati, I (The Undeceived—Caldara)
Disperazione di Fileno, La (Cavalieri)
Dispiteful Women, The. See Le donne dispettose (Piccinni)
Dissoluto punito, ossia: Il Don Giovanni, Il (Da Ponte)
Dissoluto punito, ossia: Il Don Giovanni, Il (The Libertine Punished, or: Don Juan—Mozart). See Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Distant Tone, The. See Der ferne Klang (Schreker)
dithyrambs. See choral group
Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von; farce in
divertissement
Divinia, La (Pasatieri)
dizi (bamboo side-blown flutes)
Djamileh (Bizet)
Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra
Doctor of Alcantara, The (Eichberg)
Doctor of Myddfar, The (Davies)
Doge of Venice, The. See Doge von Venetie (Wagenaar)
Doge von Venetie (The Doge of Venice—Wagenaar)
Dogheads, The. See Psohlavci (Fibich)
Dohnányi, Ernő
doina (improvisatory tradition)
Doktor Faust (Busoni and Jarnach)
Doktor und Apotheker (Dittersdorf)
Dolce, Lodovico
Dollar Princess, The. See Die Dollarprinzessin (Fall)
Dollarprinzessin, Die (The Dollar Princess—Fall)
Dolores, La (Brêton y Hernandez)
Dolorosa (Sanches de Fuentes)
Domestic Opera Company, Finland
Domino noir, Le (The Black Domino—Auber)
Doña Francisquita (Vives)
Donahue, John
Donauweibchen, Das (Kauer)
Don Bucefalo (Cagnoni)
Don Carlos (Verdi)
Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (anonymous—intermezzos)
Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (Conti)
Don Crepuscolo (Mantzaro)
Don Gil de Alcalá (Penella)
Don Giovanni (Da Ponte)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Don Giovanni myth
Doni, Giovanni Battista
Donizetti, Gaetano; in Paris; devices in; in Vienna; influence on German Romantic opera; influence on Wagner; melodrama in; and America
Don Juan (Gluck)
Don Juan legend; see also Don Giovanni myth
Donna Bianca (Keil)
Donna del lago, La (The Lady of the Lake—Rossini)
Donna Diana (Rezniček)
Donna é mobile, La (Woman Is Fickle—R. Malipiero)
Donna serpente, La (The Snake Woman—Casella)
Donne curiose, Le (The Curious Ladies—Wolf-Ferrari)
Donne dispettose, Le (The Dispiteful Women—Piccinni)
Donne letterate, Le (Salieri)
Donnerstag aus LICHT. See LICHT (Stockhausen)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Don Perlimplin (Rieti)
Don Perlimplin Belisa, in His Garden. See In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa (Fortner)
Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (Don Quixote at Comacho’s Wedding—Telemann)
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Don Quixote (R. Strauss)
Don Quixote at the Wedding of Comacho. See Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit di Comacho (Telemann)
Don Quixote y Sancho Panza (San José)
Don Rodrigo (Ginastera)
Don Sébastien (Donizetti)
Don’t Live as You’d Like to, But Live as God Commands (Ostrovsky)
Dorfbarbier, Der (The Village Barber—Hiller)
Dorfbarbier, Der (The Village Barber—Schenk)
Dorfgala, Die (The Village Festival—Schweitzer)
Dori, La (Cesti)
Dorilla in tempe (Vivaldi)
Dorn, Heinrich
Dorset Garden Theatre, London
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Double Echelle, La (The Double Ladder (Thomas)
Double Ladder, The. See La Double Echelle (Thomas)
Doubtful Love, or The Maid of the Mill. See Amor contrastato, ossia La molinara, L’ (Paisiello)
Dowland, John
Down by the Greenwood Side (Birtwistle)
Downes, Edward
Down in the Valley (Weill)
D’Oyly Carte. See Carte
Draeseke, Felix
Dragedukken (The Dragon Doll—Kunzen)
Draghi, Antonio
Draghi, Giovanni Battista
Drăgoi, Sabin
Dragon Doll, The. See Dragedukken (Kunzen)
Dragons de Villars, Les (Maillart)
drama (as subtitle for opera)
drama in music
dramatic legend
drame lyrique
dramma giocoso; ensembles in
dramma pastorale
dramma per musica; of Metastasio
dramma tragicomico
Dráteník (The Tinker—Škroup)
Drattell, Deborah
Dream, The. See Le Rêve (Bruneau)
Dreaming of Therese. See Drömmen om Thérèse (Werle)
Dream of Scipio, The. See Il sogno di Scipione (Mozart)
Dream of Valentino, The (Argento)
Dream Play, A. See Ett drömspel (Lidholm)
Dreigroschenoper, Die (Pabst; film version)
Dreigroschenoper, Die (Hauptmann, Brecht, Weill)
Dreigroschenoper, Die (The Threepenny Opera—Weill)
Drei Pintos, Die (Weber)
Drei Pintos, Die (Weber; Mahler)
Drey Töchter des Cecrops, Die (The Three Daughters of Cecrops—J. W. Franck)
Dresden, Germany; Italian opera in; German opera in; Redoubtensaal theater in; Hasse and Bordoni in; opera orchestra; intermezzos in; Weber in; Wagner in
Drömmen om Thérèse (Dreaming of Therese—Werle)
Drömspel, Ett (A Dream Play—Lidholm)
Drot og marsk (King and Marshall—Heise)
Drottningen’s Pilgrimage. See Drottningens Vallfart (Henneberg)
Drottningens Vallfart (Drottningen’s Pilgrimage—Henneberg)
Drowned Maiden, or May Night, The. See Utoplena, abo Mays’ka nich (Lysenko)
Druggist, The. See Lo speziale (Haydn)
drum(s); bass
Drums of Haiti (Hughes)
Drury Lane Theater; see also The King’s Theater
Dryden, John
Dublin, Ireland
Dubrovsky (Nápravnik)
Duchess of Marlborough
Duchess of Portsmouth
Due contesse, Le (The Two Countesses—Paisiello)
Due Foscari, I (Piave)
Due Foscari, I (The Two Foscari—Verdi)
Due gemelle, Le (The Twin Brothers—Mauricio)
Duenna, The (Sheridan)
Duenna, The; or, The Double Elopement (Linleys—father and son)
duet(s); of Monteverdi; chamber (Steffani); of Purcell; of Scarlatti; in comic opera; of Handel; in opera seria; in Gluck; in intermezzos; in opéra comique; of Mozart; of Auber; of Verdi; of Ponchielli; of Schubert; of Chabrier; of Chausson; of Messager; of R. Strauss; of Smetana; of Britten
Dukas, Paul
Du Locle, Camillo
Dumas, Alexandre, fils
Dumas, Alexandre, père
Dumitrescu, Gheorghe
Duncan, Isadora
Duni, Egidio Romualdo
Dunlap, William
Dupont, Gabriel
Durante, Francesco
Durazzo, Giacomo
Durey, Louis
Durón, Sebastián
Du Roullet, François Louis Lebland
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
Düsseldorf, Germany; Italian opera in
Dvě vdovy (The Two Widows—Smetana)
Dvořák, Antonin
Dwarf, The. See Der Zweig (Zemlinsky)
Dybbuk, The (Ansky)
Dybbuk, The. See Il Dibuk, Il (Rocca)
Dylan. See The Cauldron of Annwn (Holbrooke)
Dynamite Tonite (Bolcom)
Dzerzhinsky, Ivan
Dzhalil (Zhiganov)
Dzhalil, Masa
Dzimtenes atmoda (The Nation’s Awakening—A. Kalnitņš)
Early Reign of Oleg, The. See Nachal ’noye upra leniye Olega (Sarti)
Easter rites
Eastern and Western traditions combined in opera
Eccles, John
ecclesiastical drama
Echo et Narcisse (Gluck)
echo effects: with songs and arias; with chorus; with instruments;
Éclair, L’ (The Lightning Flash—Halévy)
eclecticism; see also style
Ecuba (G. F. Malipiero)
Eda (Pedrell)
Edgar (Puccini)
Edinburgh International Festival, Scotland
Edwin and Angelina (Pelissier)
Egisto (Cavalli)
Egisto (Faustini)
Egisto, L’. See Chi soffre speri
Egk, Werner
Eglè (Giraldi)
Egle, Queen of the Snakes. See Egle žalčių karaliene (Petrauskas)
Egle žalčių karaliene (Egle, Queen of the Snakes—Petrauskas)
egloga (pastorale)
Egmont (Beethoven’s incidental music to)
Egyptian language
Eight Genii, The
Einem, Gottfried von
“Ein feste Burg” (Lutheran chorale)
Einstein, Alfred
Einstein (Dessau)
Einstein on the Beach (Glass)
Eisenach, Germany
Eisler, Hanns
Elbogen, Paul
Elche, Spain; see also El misterio de Elche
Elda (Catalani)
Elegy for Young Lovers (Henze)
Electra (Euripides)
Electra (Sophocles)
Elektra (Hoffmannsthal)
Elektra (R. Strauss)
electronic resources used
electronic instruments
electronic music; taped
Eleonora of Toledo
Elga (Lemba)
Elguera, Amalia
Elinan Surma (Elina’s Death—O.Merikanto)
Elina’s Death. See Elinan Surma (O. Merikanto)
Eliot, T. S.
Elisabeth Tudor (Fortner)
Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (Barbieri)
Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England—Rossini)
Elisir d’amore, L’ (The Elixir of Love—Donizetti)
Elixir of Love, The. See L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti)
Eliza, or The Voyage to the Glaciers of Mt. St. Bernard. See Eliza, ou Le Voyage aux glaciers du Mont St. Bernard (Cherubini)
Eliza ou Le Voyage aux glaciers du Mont St. Bernard (Eliza, or The Voyage to the Glaciers of Mt. St. Bernard—Cherubini)
Elisabeth Tudor (Fortner)
Elizabeth, Queen of England. See Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Rossini)
Elizabeth II, queen of England
Elizabethan music
Elling, Catherinus
Elsia e Claudio (Mercadante)
Elsner, Józef Antoni
embellishments. See ornamentation
Emile (Rousseau)
Emperor Jones, The (Gruenberg)
Emperor of Haiti (Hughes)
Emperor’s New Clothes, The (Moore)
Empfindsamkeit
Empio punito, L’ (The Rake Punished—A. Melani)
Emporium (Morera)
Enamored Brother, The. See Lo frate ’nnamorato (Pergolesi)
Enchanted Island (Farquhar)
Enchanted Palace, The. See Il palazzo incantato (Rospigliosi)
Enchanted Palace, The. See Il palazzo incantato (L. Rossi)
Enchantress, The. See Charodeyka (Tchaikovsky)
Encina, Juan del
encyclopedists
Ende einer Welt, Das (The End of the World—Henze)
Endimione (Schürmann)
End of a World, The. See Das Ende einer Welt (Henze)
Eneída (Aeneid—Lysenko)
Enescu, Georges
En famille (Maupassant)
Enfant et les sortilèges, L’ (The Child and the Sorceries—Ravel)
Enfant prodigue, L’ (The Child Prodigy—Debussy)
Enfant roi, L’ (The Child King—Bruneau)
Enfant roi, L’ (Zola)
England; the masque in; national opera; development of seventeenth-century opera in; first recitative in; first opera in; Commonwealth, Restoration; French influence in; comic opera in; Italian opera in; ballad opera in; opera of, in Ireland and American colonies; influence of opéra comique in; nineteenth-century opera in; twentieth-century opera in
English Cat, The (Henze)
English Eccentrics, The (Williamson)
English National Opera, England
English Opera, The (Locke); see also Psyche (Locke)
Enlèvement d’Europe, L’ (The Kidnaping of Europa—Milhaud)
Enlightenment
Enna, August
Enrico II (Nicolai)
Enrico di Borgogna (Donizetti)
ensalada
ensemble finales; in Cimarosa; in Haydn; in Mozart; in Wagner
ensembles: instrumental; vocal; in comic operas/intermezzos; of Scarlatti; in seventeenth-century opera; in opera seria; in Cimarosa; in opéra comique; quartet, in Philidor; in Singspiel; of Mozart; of Salieri; in early nineteenth-century French opera; in grand opera; of Rossini; of Verdi; contrapuntal; of Rimsky-Korsakov; in Czech opera; in early Spanish opera; of R. Strauss; of Prokofiev; of Britten; see also duet, quartet, quintet, trio
“Ens Ukase” (Russian decree)
Enterprise, or Love and Pleasure, The (Clifton)
Entführung aus dem Serail, Die (The Abduction from the Seraglio—Mozart)
entr’acte(s)
entr’acte intermèdes
entrée (dance)
entrées (acts)
entremés; see also intermezzo
entry (dance)
entries (acts)
epic(s); medieval; in Russian opera; in Falla; in Glass; in Chinese opera
epic theater movement
epilogue(s); in R. Strauss
Equivoci nel sembiante, Gli (Misunderstandings due to Appearances—A. Scarlatti)
Eraclea (Scarlatti)
Ercole amante (Hercules in Love—Cavalli)
Ercole in Lidia (Rovetta)
Ercole in Tebe (Hercules in Thebes—J. Melani)
Erevan, Armenia
Erevan State Opera House, Armenia
erhuang
Erida d’Uriac (Vives)
Erindo (Kusser)
Erkel, Ferenc
Erlebach, Philipp Heinrich
Erminia at the Jordan. See Erminia sul Giordano (M. Rossi)
Erminia sul Giordano (Rospigliosi)
Erminia sul Giordano (Erminia at the Jordan—M. Rossi)
Ernani (Verdi)
Ernst August, duke
Eroe cinese, L’ (The Chinese Hero—Uttini)
Eroi, Gli (The Heros—Berutti)
Eroi di Bonaventura, Gli (G. F. Malipiero)
eroicomico: type of libretto
Erosa i Psyche (Eros and Psyche—Rózyeki)
Eros and Psyche. See Erosa i Psyche (Różyeki)
Ero s onoga svijeta (Ero the Joker—Gotovac)
Ero the Joker. See Ero s onoga svijeta (Gotovac)
Eros und Psyche (Zenger)
Errettung Thebens, Die (Kelterborn)
Erring Woman, The. See La traviata (Verdi)
Erschaffene, gefallene und wieder augerichtete Mensch, Der (The Creation, Fall, and Redemption of Man—Theile)
Erschöpfung der Welt, Die (The Collapse of the World—Kagel)
Erwartung (Expectation—Schoenberg)
Eschenbach, Wolfram von
Esclarmonde (Massenet)
Escorial (Levy)
Esels Schatten, Das (R. Strauss)
Esmeralda (Bertin)
Esmeralda (Thomas)
España (Chabrier)
Espín y Guillén, Joaquín
Estates Theater, Prague
Ester (Ponce de León)
Esterhazy: Prince; family
Esteve y Grimau, Pablo
Esther (Weisgall)
Esther de Carpentras (Milhaud)
Estonia: national opera
Es war einmal (Once Upon a Time—Zemlinsky)
Eszterháza; palace; opera house; marionette theater
Eteocle e Polinice (Legrenzi)
Étoile, L’ (The Star—Chabrier); see also Merry Monarch
Étoile du nord, L’ (The North Star—Meyerbeer)
Étranger, L’ (The Stranger—D’Indy)
Eugene Onegin. See Yevgeny Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Eule, Carl David
Eumelio (Agazzari)
Eumenides (Aeschylus)
Euménides, Les (Milhaud)
Euphrosine; or, The Tyrant Rebuked. See Euphrosine, ou Le Tyran corrigé (Méhul)
Euphrosine, ou Le Tyran corrigé (Euphrosine; or, The Tyrant Rebuked—Méhul)
Eurico (Pereira)
Euridice (Caccini)
Euridice (Peri)
Euridice (Rinuccini)
Euripides
Europa riconosciuta (Salieri)
Europa galante L’ (Galant Europe—Graun)
Europe galante, L’ (Galant Europe—Campra)
Europeras 1 & 2 (Cage)
Europeras 3 & 4 (Cage)
Europera 5 (Cage)
Euryanthe (Weber)
Eva (Foerster)
Evangelimann, Der (Kienzl)
Evelyn, John
Evenings with the Orchestra (Berlioz)
Everett, Horace (pseud. for Erik Johns)
Excursion of Mr. Brouček from the Moon to the Exhibition (Kovařovic)
exoticism; in Gluck; in English opera; in Mozart; in French opera; in Italian opera
Expectation. See Erwartung (Schoenberg)
expressionism: in twentieth-century opera
Ezio (Gluck)
Ezio (Handel)
Ezio (Metastasio)
Ezra Pound and Music (Schafer)
Faaraon kirje (The Pharaoh’s Letter—Marttinen)
fabliau
Fabula d’Orfeo, La (Poliziano)
Faccio, Franco
Fago, Nicola
Fair at Sorochintsï, The. See Sorochinskaya yarmarka (Musorgsky)
Fairies, The. See Die Feen (Wagner)
Fair Ilonka. See Szép Ilonka (Mosonyi)
Fair(s): season of; theaters at; see also Opéra-Comique
Fairyland (Parker)
Fairy Queen, The (Purcell)
Fairy Tale, A. See Ena paramythi (Lavrangas)
fairy tales; in comic opera; in German Romantic opera; in Russian opera; in Polish opera; in Czech opera, in Finnish opera; in Chinese opera
fairy-tale opera (Märchenoper)
Fairy Urgèle, The. See La Fée Urgèle (Duni)
Faith Betrayed and Avenged. See La fede tradita e vendicata (Gasparini)
Faithful Deception, The. See L’inganno fedele (Keiser)
Faithful Princess, The. See La principessa fedele (Scarlatti)
Fakanapas (Lavrangas)
Falcone, Il. See Chi soffre, speri
Fall, Leo
Falla, Manuel de
Fall of Arkun, The. See Pád Arkuna (Fibich)
Fall of the House of Usher, The (Poe)
Fall of the House of Usher, The. See La Chute de la maison Usher (Debussy)
Fall of Ten Men, The. See La caduta de’ decemviri (A. Scarlatti)
Falls River, Massachusetts
False Slave, The. See La Fausse Esclave (Gluck)
false start. See Devise
Falstaff (Balfe)
Falstaff (Boito)
Falstaff (Salieri)
Falstaff (Shakespeare)
Falstaff (Verdi)
Fan, The (Goldstein)
Fanchon das Leiermädchen (Fanchon, the Organ-grinder—Himmel)
Fanchon, the Organ-grinder. See Fanchon das Leiermädchen (Himmel)
Fanchonette, La (Clapisson)
Fanciulla del West, The (The Girl of the Golden West—Puccini)
Fancy Free (Bernstein)
Faniska (Cherubini)
Fantasio (Smyth)
Fantesca, La (Hasse)
Fantesca, La, or Carlotta e Pantaleone (Saddumene)
farce(s); medieval; in religious drama; elements of, in Scarlatti; in comic opera; farsa in un atto; the supernatural and; in nineteenth-century German opera; in operetta
Farinelli (Carlo Broschi)
Farinelli, or The Power of Singing (Matthus)
Farnese, Odoardo, duke of Parma
Farquhar, David
farsa. See farce
far stupire. See Baroque style
Farwell, Arthur
Fascism
Fashionable Lady, or Harlequin’s Opera, The (Ralph)
Fate. See Osud (Janáček)
Fate of a Man. See Sud’ba cheloveka (Dzerzhinsky)
Fatherland, The. See Otad žbina (Konjovič)
Fatinitza (Suppé)
Faule Hans, Der (Lazy Hans—Ritter)
Fauré, Gabriel-Urbain
Fausse Esclave, La (The False Slave—Gluck)
Faust (Berlioz). See La Damnation de Faust (Berloz)
Faust (Goethe)
Faust (Gounod); revised version; see also Margarete
Faust (Lessing)
Faust (Marlowe)
Faust (Spohr)
Faust (Zöllner)
Faust, Johannes
Faust legend
“Faust” Symphony (Liszt)
Faustini, Giovanni
Fausto (Bertin)
faux-bourdon
Favart, Charles-Simon
Favola d’Orfeo, La (Casella)
favola in musica
favola pastorale
Favorite, La (Donizetti)
Fazzioli, M.
Feast of Jests, The. See La cena delle beffe—Giordano)
Febiarmonici: as an academy; as a traveling troupe
Fedeltà premiata, La (Haydn)
Federal Theater Act
Federico, Gennar’ Antonio
Fede tradita e vendicata, La (Faith Betrayed and Avenged—Gasparini)
Fedora (Giordano)
Fedra (Pizzetti)
Feen, Die (The Fairies—Wagner)
Fée Urgèle, La (The Fairy Urgèle—Duni)
Fée Urgèle, La (Favart)
Feind, Barthold
Fenella ovvero La muta di Portici (Pavesi)
Ferber, Edna
Fernand Cortez (Spontini)
Ferdinand Carl, archduke
Ferdinando I de’ Medici
Ferdinando II de’ Medici, grand duke of Tuscany
Fernandez, Oscar Lorenzo
Fernandez-Caballero, Manuel
Fernando nel Messico (Portugal)
Ferne Klang, Der (The Distant Tone—Schreker)
Fern’s Bloom, The. See Tsvitpaporoti (Stankovych)
Ferrabosco, Alfonso
Ferrara, Italy
Ferrarese del Bene, Adriana
Ferrari, Benedetto
Ferrari, Gabrielle
Fervaal (D’Indy)
Festa d’Elche
festa musicale
festa teatrale
Feste d’Imeneo, Le (Traetta)
Festes de l’Amour e de Bacchu, Les (Lully)
Festival at Solhaug, The. See Gildet på Solhaug—Stenhammar)
Festival of Beijing Operas
Festival of Our Lady of the Dove, The. See La verbena de la paloma (Bretón y Hernández)
Festival of Regrets, The (Drattell); see also Central Park
Festspiele (H. Huber)
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
Fête d’Apollo, Le (Gluck)
Fêtes de Thalie, Les (Mouret)
Fêtes d’Hébé, Les (Rameau)
Fêtes grecques et romaines, Les (Blamont)
Fêtes vénitiennes, Les (Venetian Festivities—Campra)
Fétis, François-Joseph
Fetonte (Jommelli)
Feuersnot (The Fire-Famine—R. Strauss)
Fiamma, La (The Flame—Respighi)
Fiancée de marbe, La (The Marble Bride—Herold); see also Zampa
Fibich, Zdeněrk
Fidelio (Beethoven); French influence in
Fidnazato del mare, Il (The Bridegroom of the Sea—Panizza)
Fielding, Henry
Field of Honor, The. See Le Pré aux Clercs (Herold)
Fiera, La (Buonarroti)
Fiera di Farfa, La (The Fair of Farfa—Marazzoli)
Fierrabras (Schubert)
Fiery [or Flaming] Angel, The. See Ognenny angel (Prokofiev)
Fiesta (Milhaud)
fiestas de la Zarzuela
Fifth Avenue Theater, New York City
Fifth Symphony (Shostakovich)
Fifth Symphony (Vaughan Williams)
Figaro (Mozart). See La nozze di Figaro
Figaro triology (Beaumarchais)
Figliuoli prodigo, Il (The Prodigal Son—Ponchielli)
Filenis (Statkowski)
Fille de la terre, La (The Daughter of the Earth—Séverac)
Fille de Madame Angot, La (Lecocq)
Fille du régiment, La (The Daughter of the Regiment—Donizetti)
film(s), music composed for; in Berg; first use of, in opera production; in Weill; in the Volksbühne; in Brand; in Zimmermann; in Werle; operas and operettas adapted for; and Cage
Filosofo di campagna, Il (The Peasant Philosopher—Galuppi)
Filosofo di campagna, Il (Goldoni)
Filosofi immaginari, I. See Gli astrologi immaginari (Paisiello)
Fils de Guédron, Le (liturgical drama)
final
finale(s), in seventeenth-century opera; buffo; in opera buffa; rondo finale; symphonic; in intermezzo; in Mozart; concerted; in nineteenth-century French opera; in Beethoven; in grand opera; in Mayr; in Verdi; in German Romantic opera; in Wagner; in R. Strauss; in Léhar in Hindemith; in Prokofiev; choral, in Vaughan Williams; see also ensemble finales; vaudeville final
Fine, Vivian
Finland: national opera of
Finnish National Opera, Finland
Finta giardiniera, La (The Pretended Gardener—Mozart)
Finta pazza, La (The Pretended Madwoman—Sacrati)
Finta pazza Licori, La (Strozzi)
Finta pazza Licori, La (The Pretended Madwoman, Licori—Monteverdi)
Finta semplice, La (The Pretended Simpleton—Mozart)
Finte zingare, Le (The Pretended Gypsies—Orefice)
Finti eredi, I (Sarti)
Fioraia di Lugano, La (Ortíz de Zarate)
Fire and Night. See Uguns un Nakts (Mediņš)
Firebird (Stravinsky)
Firebird, The. See Zharptitsa (Cavos)
Fire-Famine. See Feuersnot (R. Strauss)
First Fantasia on In Nomine of John Taverner for Orchestra (Davies)
First Festival of Beijing Operas on Contemporary Themes
First the Music and then the Words. See Prima la musica, e poi le parole (Salieri)
Fischer, Johann Iganz Ludwig
Fishermen, The. See Fiskerne (Johann Hartmann)
Fisherwomen, The. See Le pescatrici (Haydn)
Fiskerne (The Fishermen—Johann Hartmann)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fjeldeventyret (A Mountain Adventure—Thrane)
Flame, The. See La fiamma (Respighi)
Flame of Vengeance. See Tasuleegid (Kapp)
Flames of Madness. See Irrelohe (Schreker)
Flaming Angel. See Fiery Angel
Flaming Arrow, The (M.Moore)
Flaminio, Il (Pergolesi)
Flaubert, Gustave
flautino alla Vigesima seconda
Flavio (Handel)
Flavius Bertaridus (Telemann)
Fledermaus, Die (The Bat—J. Strauss)
Fleg, Edmond
Fliegende Holländer, Der (The Flying Dutchman—Wagner)
Flis (The Raftsman—Moniuszko)
Flora, or The Hob in the Well (Cibber-Hipplesley)
Flora, La (Gagliano)
Flora, or Hob in the Well (Cibber and Hipplesley)
Flora mirabilis (Samaras)
Florence, Italy; intermedi in; camerata(e) of; academies of; monodists in; opera in; audiences in; castrati in
Florencia en el Amazonas (Catán)
Florentine opera: style of; subjects of
Florentine Tragedy, A (Wilde)
Florentinische Tragödie, Eine (Zemlinsky)
Floridante (Handel)
Florida State University
Florimo (librarian of Naples Consevatory)
Florinda (Ponce de León)
Flotow, Friedrich von
Flower and Hawk (Floyd)
Floyd, Carlisle
flutes; tenor; traverse; bass
Flying Dutchman, The. See Die fliegende Holländer (Wagner)
Foerster, Josef Bohuslav
Folie, Une (Méhul)
“folk” (the): glorification of; in Russian music
folk dances
folk-like songs, in operas; melodies, in operas; motifs
folklore: as source for opera; Celtic; elements of, in Czech opera, music drama in Finnish opera; in Latin American opera
folk music: in Singspiel; in French opera; in Russian opera; in Ukrainian opera; in Armenian opera; in Polish opera; in Romanian opera; in Swedish opera; in Spanish opera; in twentieth-century German opera; in English opera; in Czech opera; in Serbian opera; Lithuanian; Hungarian; Romanian; Serbian; Turkish; in Finnish opera; Chinese; see also melody; song
folk opera: of Smetana; of Thrane; of Orff; in Finland; of Gershwin; of Copland; of Moore; black American, of Weill; of Floyd.
folksongs: derived from Singpiele; themes derived from; of Hungary; of Russia; of the Ukraine; of Poland; of Spain and Catalonia; Welsh; Afro-Americans; French; in Honegger; Czech; Moravian; Greek; Hungarian; Montenegrin; Brazilian; Celtic; English; Canadian tribal; Maori; Native American; American; see also popular song
folk tales; in Czech opera; Scottish; in American opera
Follet (Granados)
Follino, Federico
Fomin, Evstigney Ipatovich
Fondazione Rossini
Fontainebleau
Food of Love, The (Beaser); see also Central Park
Fool, The (Somers)
Fool’s Preferment, A (Purcell)
Forbes, Esther
Ford, Henry
Ford Foundation, The
foreground/background music, in Britten
Forest, The. See Der Wald (Smyth)
Forest without Love, The. See La selva sin amor (Vega)
forlane
For Red Petrograde
Forssell, Jonas
Forster, E. M.
Fortner, Wolfgang
Förtsch, Johann Philipp
Forza d’amor paterno, La (The Power of Paternal Love—Stradella)
Forza del destino, La (The Power of Destiny—Verdi)
Forza della virtu, La (Keiser)
Foss, Lukas
Fouqué. See La Motte Fouqué
Four Brothers Aymon, The. See Les Quatre Fils Aymon, Les (Balfe). See also The Castle Aymon
Four Saints in Three Acts (Thomson)
foxtrot
Fra Diavolo (Auber)
Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode (While Two Dispute, the Third Enjoys—Sarti)
Fra gamle Dage (Of Golden Days—Haarklou)
Fra Gherardo (Pizzetti)
Franc-Nohain (pseud. of Maurice Le Grand)
France; mascarades; opera as institution in; first Italian opera staged in; Regency; Revolution; national festivals; Consulate; First Empire; opéra comique in; Second Empire; influence on Spanish opera
France, opera:; Lully and; early French opera defined; national type of; Italian influence on; influence of; and English masques; national school; and Gluck characteristics of early nineteenth-century; and Gounod; and Rossini; late nineteenth-century; influence of Wagner on; naturalism and; in Portugal; performed in United States; twentieth-century
Francesca da Rimini (Rakhmaninov)
Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)
Franchetti, Alberto
Francis I, king of France
Franck, César; symphony of
Franck, Johann Wolfgang
Françoise de Rimini (Thomas)
Franco-Prussian War
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Franklin, Benjamin
Frasquita (Léhar)
Frate ’nnamorato, Lo (The Enamored Brother—Pergolesi)
Frauenzimmer Gesprächspiele (Harsdörffer)
Frau ohne Schatten, Die (The Woman Without a Shadow—R. Strauss)
Frederik IV, king of Denmark
Frederik V, king of Denmark
Frederick Augustus of Saxony
Frederick the Great, king of Prussia
Fredkulla (The Peacemaker—Udbye)
Freemasonry: members of the Masonic order; see also Masonic symbolism
Freischütz, Der (The Charmed Bullet—Weber); “Wolfs Glen” scene
Freschi, Giovanni Domencio
Freyschütz, Der (Caspar)
Freyschütz, Der (The Charmed Bullet—Neuner)
Fribec, Frešimir
Friedenstag (Day of Peace—R. Strauss)
Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
From the House of the Dead. See Z mrtvého domu (Janáčrek)
From Today until Tomorrow. See Von Heute auf Morgen (Schoenberg)
frottola
Frugoni, Carlo
Frustrated Wedding, The. See Zmařená svatba (Šebor)
Fry, Joseph
Fry, William Henry
fugue, choral
Fukien, China
Full Moon in March (Harbison)
Fumi, Vinceslao
fundament instruments
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A (Sondheim)
Fux, Johann Josef; motto beginning in
Gabrieli, Andrea
Gagliano, Giovanni Battista da
Gagliano, Marco da
Gageure imprévue, La (The Unexpected Wager—Sauguet)
gaita
galanteries; see also galant style
Galant Europe. See L’Europa galante (Graun)
Galant Europe. See L’Europe galante (Campra)
galant style
Gala Placidia (Pahissa)
Galatea (P.A. Ziani)
Galatea, La (Uttini)
Galatea, La (Vittori); revised
Galatée (Massé)
“Galatina e Pampalugo” (Pariati/Conti)
Galaxy, The. See Chumats’ky shlyakh (Zubyts’ky)
Galician, dialect of; see also gaita; muñeira
Galilei, Vincenzo
galliard(s)
Galliard, John Ernest
Galuppi, Baldassare (“Il Buranello”); defines good music; and Goldoni; in Russia
gamba(s)
Gambler, The. See Igrok (Prokofiev)
Gamblers, The. See Igroki (Shostakovich)
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gang of Four
Gänsemarkt. See Theater am Gänsemarkt
Gänsemarktoper
Gantenbeim (U. Zimmermann)
Gantez, Annibal
García, José Pablo Moncayo. See Moncayo García, José Pablo.
García Lorca, Federico
García, Manuel
Garden of Adonis, The (Weisgall)
Gasparini, Francesco
Gassmann, Florian Leopold
Gato montés, El (Penella)
Gatta bianca, La (The White Cat—Hargreaves)
gauchos
Gautier, Pierre
Gaveaux, Pierre
gavotte
Gawain (Birtwistle)
Gay Hussars. See Ein Herbstmanöver (Kálmán)
Gay, John
Gaziel (Granados)
Gaztambide, Joaquin
Gazza ladra, La (The Thieving Magpie—Rossini)
Gazzaniga, Giuseppe
Gebler, Tobias Philipp von
Geburtstag der Infantin, Der (The Birthday of the Infanta—Schreker)
Geduldige Socrates, Der (The Patient Socrates—Telemann)
Gefors, Hans
Geheimnis der Form bei Richard Wagner, Das (The Secret of Form in Richard Wagner—Lorenz)
Geigenmacher von Cremona, Die (The Violin Maker of Cremona—Trneček)
Geisterinsel, Die (The Isle of Spirits—Zumsteeg)
geju (sung drama)
Genée, Richard
Generali, Pietro
género chico
Generous Mason, The (Chetwood)
Genoa, Italy
Genoveva (Schumann)
Gentleman in White, or No Haunts Left for Ghosts, The. See Bilý pán, aneb Těžko se dnes duchůn strašt (Křička)
George I, king of England
Georges Dandin (Lully and Molière)
Georges Dandin (Molière)
Gerl, Franz Xaver
Germania (Franchetti)
German Legends, The (J. and F. Grimm)
German Singspiel company: in Vienna; in Berlin
Germany; religious drama in; Italian opera in; Italian composers in; influence of French culture on; theaters in; native composers; postwar period in
Germany, opera: defined; influence of Italian opera on; early; first; influence of French on; eighteenth century; forerunners of; arias with Italian texts; national school of; comic (Singspiel); collapse of; Romantic style of; in Berlin; late eighteenth-century; of Winter; Romantic opéra comique in; nineteenth-century Romantic; Wagner s early operas as consummation of; comic opera; and America; twentieth-century; influence of Debussy on
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Liberated—Pallavicino)
Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso)
Gesamtkunstwerk
Geschichte der Knnst des Alterthums, Die (History of Ancient Art—Winckelmann)
Geschichte der Musik (Ambros)
“Geschichte der tugendsamen Euryanthe von Savoyen, Die” (Schlegel)
Gespensterbuch (Apel and Laun)
Gespenst mit der Trommel, Das (The Ghostly Drummer—Dittersdorf)
Gespenst von Canterville, Das (The Ghost of Canterville—Sutermeister)
Gesprächspiel
gesture(s); in sound; and movement; pantomimic; in Chinese opera; see also “sound gesture”
Gesualdo, Carlo
Getreue Betrug, Der (Keiser). See L’inganno fedele (Keiser)
Gewandhaus concerts (Leipzig)
Geyer Willy, Die (Hillern)
Gezeichneten, Die (The Stigmatized Ones—Schreker)
Ghesderode, Michel de
Ghisèle (Franck)
Ghislanzoni, Antonio
Ghostly Drummer, The. See Das Gespenst mit der Trommel (Dittersdorf)
Ghost of Canterville, The. See Das Gespenst von Canterville (Sutermeister)
ghosts and ghostly scenes
Ghosts of Versailles, The (Corigliano)
Giacomelli, Geminiano
Giancosa, Giuseppe
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
Giannini, Vittorio
Giants in the Earth (Moore)
Giants in the Earth (Rölvaag)
Giara, La (A. Casella)
Giardiniera brillante, La (Sarti)
Giasone (Cavalli);revisions of
Gibbons, Christopher
gigue
Gilbert and Sullivan. See W. S. Gilbert; A. Sullivan
Gilbert, Henry F.
Gilbert, William S.
Gildet på Solhaug (The Festival at Solhaug—Stenhammer)
Gilson, Paul
Ginastera, Alberto
Ginevra di Scozia (Mayr)
Gioconda, La (Ponchielli)
Gioielli della Madonna, I (The Jewels of Madonna—Wolf-Ferrari)
Giordano, Umberto
Gioseffo, Il (Conti)
Giovanna d’Arco (Verdi)
Giovanna of Austria
Giovanni, the Sculptor (Hill)
Giove in Argo (Lotti)
Gioventù di Enrico Quinto, La (The Youth of Henry V—Herold)
Giraldi Cintio, Giovanni Battista
Girello, Il (J. Melani)
Girl from Navarre, The. See La Navarraise (Masenet)
Girl of the Golden West, The; see also La fanciulla del West (Puccini)
Gitanilla, La (Cervantes)
Giuletta e Romeo (Zingarelli)
Giulio Cesare (Handel); revival
Giulio Cesare (G. F. Malipiero)
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Bussani)
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Sartorio)
Giulio Sabino (Sarti)
Giuoco della cieca, Il (Cavalieri)
Giuramento, Il (The Oath—Mercadante)
Giustinani, Olimpia
Giustino (Handel)
Giustino (Legrenzi)
Glagolitic Mass (Janáček)
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
Glass, Philip
Glassblowers, The. See The American Maid, or The Glassblowers (Sousa)
Glastonbury Festival, England
Glazunov, Alexander
Glier, Reyngol’d
Glière, Reinhold. See Glier
Glimmerglasss Opera
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
Gloria and the Wig. See Gloria y peluca (Barbieri)
Gloriana (Britten)
Gloria tibi Trinitas (Taverner)
Gloria y peluca (Gloria and the Wig—Barbieri)
Glossographia (Blount)
Glover, Stephen
Gluck, Christoph Willibald; accompanied recitative in; on cavatina; reforms of; reform manifesto of; operas, of; influence on other composers; opéra comique;as conductor and arranger; and Paris; in Vienna; Mozart compared with; “abduction” opera; grand opera in descent from; and Académie Royale de Musique; followers of, in France; supernatural in
Gluck-Piccinni controversy
Glückliche Hand, Die (The Lucky Hand—Schoenberg)
Goblin, The. See Der Kobold (Himmel)
Godard, Benjamin
Godmother’s Death (Smrt kmotřička—Karel)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goetz, Hermann
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich
Gold. See L’oro (Pizzetti)
Gold Does Not Buy Love. See L’oro non compra amore (Portugal)
Golden Apple, The. See Il pomo d’oro (Cesti)
Golden Cockerel, The. See Zolotoy petushok (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Golden Cross, The. See Das goldene Kreuz (Brühl)
Golden Dawn, The (Hammerstein and Harbach)
Golden Fleece legend
Golden Haired. See Altinohach (Zhiganov)
Golden Ram, The. See Der goldene Bock (Krenek)
Golden Ring, The. See Zolotyy obruch (Lyatoshyns’ky)
Goldene Bock, Der (The Golden Ram—Krenek)
Goldene Kreuz, Das (The Golden Cross—Brühl)
Goldmark, Karl
Goldondrinas, Las (The Swallows—Usandizaga)
Goldoni, Carlo
Goldstein, Leo
Golfo de las Sirenas, El (Calderón)
Gomes, Antonio Carlos
Gonzaga court in Mantua
Gonzaga, Ferdinando
Gonzaga, Francesco
Gonzaga (d’Este), Margherita
Gonzaga, Vincenzo, grand duke of Mantua
Gonzalo de Córdoba (Serrano y Ruiz)
Good Evening, Monsieur Pantalon. See Bonsoir, M. Pantalon (Grisar)
Good from Evil. See Dal male il bene (Abbatini and Marazzoli)
Good Girl, The. See La buona figliuola (Piccinni)
Good King Dagobert, The. See Le Bon Roi Dagobert (Samuel-Rousseau)
Good Soldier Schweik, The (Kurka)
Goplana (Żeleńki)
Gorky, Maxim
Gosse, Edmund
Gossec, François-Joseph
Gotovac, Juko
Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
Gottfried of Strassburg
Gottsched, Johann Christoph; reforms of
Goudar, Ange
Gounod, Charles
Goya (Menotti)
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de
Goyescas (Granados)
Gozzi, Carlo
Grabu, Louis
Graf von Luxemburg, Der (Léhar)
Gräfin Mariza (Kálmán)
“Grail Castle” (Neuschwanstein, Germany)
Gram og Signe (a pasticcio—Sarti et al)
gramophone: recordings for
Granados, Enrique
Grand Balcony, The (Levy)
grand choeur
Grand Duchess of Gérolstein,, The (Offenbach)
Grand Duke, The (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Grand Macabre, Le (Ligeti)
grand opera; grand opéra defined; features of; ideal of; lyric opera compared with; Rossini’s works in formation of; of Donizetti; of Verdi; influence on German Romantic opera; German; of Weber; of Wagner; Carmen as; Wagnerian idiom and; elements of, in late nineteenth century French opera; in Germany; influence on Russian opera; elements of, in R. Strauss; of Hill; of Gershwin; of Weisgall; of Susa
Gran Natale di Christo Salvator Nostro, Il
Grant, Ulysses S.
Gran vía, La (The Great Road—Chueca and Valverde)
Granville, George
Graun, Carl Heinrich; as reformer
Graupner, Christopher
gravicembalo; see also harpsichord
Gravina, Gian Vincenzo
graviorgano
Gražina (Karnavicĭus)
Grazzini, Anton Francesco (aka Il Lasca)
“Great American Opera.” See American opera
Great Britain. See England
Great Depression
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Great Friendship, The. See Velikaya druzhba (Muradeli)
Great Gatsby, The (Harbison)
Great Road, The. See La gran vía (Chueca and Valve rde)
Greatshot (Bolcom)
Grechaninov, Alexander Tikhonovich
Greece; Italian opera in; national opera of
Greek, use of in operas
Greek (Berkoff)
Greek (Turnage)
Greek comedy. See comedy, Greek Greek music; dramatic; early fragments of
Greek Opera, Athens
Greek opera: Ionian School of; National School of;
Greek Passion. See Řeské pašije (Martinů)
Greek tragedy. See tragedy, Greek
“Greensleeves,”
Gregor, Josef
Gregorian chant; see also chant
Grétry, André Ernest Modeste
Grieg, Edward
Griffiths, Paul
Grimani, Vincenzo
Grimm, Jakob L. K.
Grimm, Wilhelm
Grimm’s fairytales; see also The German Legends
Grisar, Albert
Griselda (G. Bononcini)
Griselda (A. Scarlatti)
Griselda (Vivaldi)
Griselda (Zeno)
Grosheim, George Christoph
Grossi, Giovanni Francesco. See Siface
Grotta di Calipso, La (Winter)
Grotta di Trofonio, La (Salieri)
ground (-bass); see also passacaglia
Grout, Donald Jay
Gruenberg, Louis
Grünewald, Matthias
Guarany, Il (Gomes)
Guard of Honor (Joplin)
Guarini, Battista
Guarnieri, Camargo
Guatimotzín (Ortega)
Guerre des Bouffons. See Querelle des Bouffons
Guidiccioni, Laura
guilds: mastersingers
Guillard, Nicolas-François
Guillaume de Lorris
Guillaume Tell (Grétry)
Guillaume Tell (Jouy)
Guillaume Tell (Rossini)
Giulmant, Alexandre
Guilty Mother, The. See La Mère coupable (Beaumarchais)
Guilty Mother, The. See La Mère coupable (Milhaud)
Guiraud, Ernest
guitar(s)
Gulak-Artemovsky, Semyon
Günther von Schwarzburg (Holzbauer)
Guntram (R. Strauss)
Guridi, Jesús
Gurjão, Henrique Eulalio
Gurney, A. R.
Gustaf Wasa (Kellgren)
Gustaf Wasa (Naumann)
Gustav III, ou Le Bal masqué (Verdi)
Gustavus III, king of Sweden
Guthrie, Tyrone
Gutierrez, Antonio Garcia
Guy Mannering (Bertin)
Guy Mannering (Scott)
Gwendoline (Chabrier)
Gypsy (Styne)
Gypsy, La (Mazilier and Vernoy de Saint-George)
Gypsy Baron, The. See Der Zigeunerbaron (J. Strauss)
Gypsy Love. See Zigeunerliebe (Léhar)
gypsy music: Spanish, in English opera
Gyrismos, O (Koukos); see also The Return (Koukos)
Gyrowetz, Adalbert
H. M. S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Haarklou, Johannes
Haas, Pavel
Häät (The Wedding—Marttinen)
Hába, Alois
Hába, Karel
Habeneck, François Antonie
habeñera
Habsburgs: court of; celebrations (birthdays, name-days, marriages); coronation of; empire of the
Hacquart, Carolus
Haddon Hall (Sullivan)
Hadley, Henry Kimball
“Haffner” Symphony (Mozart)
Hagen, Daron
Hagith (Szymanowski)
Hahn, Reynaldo
Haideschact, Der (Holstein)
Hai-kang (On the Docks)
Halévy, Jacques-François Fromental Elie
Halévy, Ludovic
Halewijn (Pijper)
Halffter, Ernesto
Halka (Moniuszko)
Hallén, Andreas
Hallström, Ivar
Hamburg, Germany; opera in; Sing-Spiele at; public opera house in; earliest extant opera for; Keiser at; Telemann at; Handel at; Hasse at; intermezzos in
Hamilton, Iain
Hamlet (Thomas)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Verdi)
Hamlet, The. See El caserio (Guridi)
Hamlets (J. Kalniņš)
Hammerstein, Oscar
Hammerstein II, Oscar
Handel, George Frideric; use of orchestra; Handelian style; motto beginning in; influence of Keiser on; borrowed material for operas; in Hamburg; as conductor; in Hamburg; in Italy; and oratorio; influence of Mattheson on; late Baroque style of; and pasticcio; as impresario; and singers; continuo realization by; Gluck and
Hand of Bridge, A (Barber)
Hangover Square (filmscore—Herrmann)
Hanover (Hannover), Germany; court of; Italian opera in; opera houses in
Hansel und Gretel (fairy-tale)
Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck)
Hans Heiling (Marschner)
Hanslick, Eduard
Hanson, Howard
Hans Sachs (Deinhardstein)
Hans Sachs (Lortzing)
Hans Sachs im vorgerückten Alter (Gyrowetz)
Hanswurst (created by Joseph Stranitzky)
Hanusia, lub Dia świejej (Hanusia, or For the Holy Country—Noskowski)
Hanusia, or For the Holy Country. See Hanusia, lub Dia święjej (Noskowski)
Haönteiselämää (Insect Life—K.Aho)
Happy Captive, The (Galliard)
Happy Deception, The. See L’inganno felice (Rossini)
happy ending. See lieto fine
Happy Prince, The (Williamson)
Harald Viking (Hallén)
Harbach, Otto
Harbison, John
Hardy, Thomas
Hargreaves, Francisco
Harlem (New York City), theater in
Harlem Renaissance
Harlequin (Stockhausen)
Harmonices mundi (Kepler)
Harmonie der Welt, Die (The Harmony of the World—Hindemith)
harmonic structure: chromatic; in Keiser; in Handel; in Italian opera—old/new styles; in eighteenth-century opera; in Mozart; in Meyerbeer; in Berlioz; in Verdi; in Schubert; in Weber; in Wagner; in Chabrier; in Bruneau; in Charpentier; in Puccini; depiction of fantastic through (Russian opera); in Musorgsky; in Rimsky-Korsakov; pentatonic; modal; whole-tone; in Bloch; in Schreker; in R. Strauss; in Schoenberg; in Berg; in Milhaud; in Prokofiev; in Weisgall; in Beeson; see also microtonal music; modernism; tonal structure; twelve-note technique
Harmony of the World. See Harmonie der Welt, Die (Hindemith)
Harmoonia (Paulus)
harp(s); interlude for
harpsichord(s)
Harriet, the Woman Called Moses (Musgrave)
Harris, Joel Chandler
Harris, Ross
Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp
Hartford Athenaeum, Connecticut
Hartmann, Johann Ernst
Hartmann, Johan Peter Emilius
Harvest, The (Giannini)
Harvest Home. See Høstgildet (Schulz)
Harvey Milk (Wallace)
Háry János (Kodály)
Has med dubbel ingång (The House with Two Doors—Rosenberg)
Hasse, Johann Adolph; Metastasio and; accompanied recitative in; as reformer; Burney on; intermezzos of
Haunted, The (O’Neill)
Haunted Manor, The. See Straszny dwór (Moniuszko)
Haunted Tower, The (Storace)
Hauptmann, Elizabeth
Hauptmann, Gerhard
Hauptmotif (principal motif). See motifs, in Wagner
hautbois; see also oboe
haute-contre
Have You Heard? Do You Know? (Talma)
Haweis, Hugh Reginald
Hawkes, Ralph
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Haydn, Franz Joseph; comic operas of; influence on Mozart; “abduction” opera
“Haydn” quartets (Mozart)
Haydn Society
Haym, Nicola
Haymarket Theatre, London
Headless Horseman, The (Irving)
Headless Horseman, The (Moore)
Heart of Midlothian (Scott)
Heart of the Mill, The. See Le Coeur du moulin (Séverac)
Hebbel, Friedrich
Hebrew language
Hedy (Fibich)
Heidegger, John Jacob (impresario)
Heggie, Jake
Heimkehr aus der Fremde, Die (Mendelssohn)
Heine, Heinrich
Heinrich IV und D’Aubigné (Marschner)
Heinse, Wilhelm
Heise, Peter Arnold
Heksen (The Witch—Enna)
Helena (Freschi)
Helena und Paris (Winter)
Helen Retires (Antheil)
Helene (A. Merikanto)
Heliogabal (Pintscher)
Héliogabale (Séverac)
Hell, Theodor
Hellman, Lillian
Hello Out There (Beeson)
Heloise and Abelard (Wilson)
Help! Help! The Globolinks (Menotti)
Helsinki, Finland
Henneberg, Johann Baptist
Henneberg, Richard
Henri III et son cour (Dumas fils)
Henri VIII (Saint-Saëns)
Henry IV, king of France and Navarre
Henry IV (Shakespeare)
Henry Street Settlement Music School, New York City
Henze, Hans Werner
Herbergprinses, De (Blockx)
Herbert, Victor
Herbstmanöver, Ein (Gay Hussars—Kálmán); see also Tatárjarás
Herculanum (David)
Hercules in Love. See Ercole amante (Cavalli)
Hercules in Thebes. See Ercole in Tebe (J. Melani)
Hercules myth
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Heretic’s Bride, The. See La novia del hereje (Rogatis)
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Hernando, Rafael José María
Hernani (Hugo)
Hero, The (Bucci)
Hero, The (Menotti)
Hero and Leander legend
Herod Atticus theater, Greece
Hérodiade (Massenet)
heroic opera
heroic-comic opera
heroic-tragic opera
heroic style of opera
heroines
Herold, Louis-Joseph-Ferdinand
Heros, The. See Gli eroi (Berutti)
Herrera, Riccardo Castro
Herrmann, Bernard
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (Brecht)
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti (Lord Puntila and His Servant Matti—Dessau)
Herr von Hancken (Blomdahl)
Hervé (pseudo. of Florimond Ronger)
Hésoine (Campra)
Hesperia (Lamote de Grignon)
Hessen-Darmstadt, Georg Landfraf von
heterophony
Heuberger, Richard
Heure espagnole, L’ (The Spanish Hour—Ravel)
Hewitt, James
Heyward, DuBose
Heyward, Dorothy
Hidalgo, Juan
Highlanders, The. See Die Hochländer (Holstein)
Highway No. 1 U.S.A. (Still)
Hija de Rappaccini, La (The Daugher of Rappaccini—Catán)
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard von Hohenthal (Heinse)
Hill, Aaron
Hill, Alfred
Hill, John Walter
Hiller, Johann Adam
Hillern, Wilhelmine
Himmel, Friedrich Heinrich
Hindemith, Paul
Hin und Zurück (There and Back—Hindemith)
Hipplesley, John
Hippodamie (Fibich)
Hippodamie (Vrchlický)
Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
Histoire de ma vie, L’ (Casanova)
historical themes in opera; in Wagner; in national opera; in Russian opera; in Polish opera; in Mexican opera; in English opera; in oratorio/opera combinations; in twentieth-century opera; in Chinese opera
History of Ancient Art. See Die Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthumus (Winckelmann)
History of the Russian Empire (Karamzin)
History of the Stage (Dibdin)
“History of the Virtuous Euryanthe von Savoyen, The.” See “Die Geschichte der tugendsamen Euryanthe von Savoyen” (Schlegel)
Hitler, Adolph
Hochländer, Die (The Highlanders—Holstein)
Hochmütige, gestürtzte und wieder erhabene Croesus, Der (Croesus Haughty, Overthrown, and Again Raised Up—Keiser)
Hochzeit, Die (The Wedding—Wagner)
Hochzeit des Camacho, Die (Camacho’s Wedding—Mendelssohn)
Hoddinott, Alun
Hofburg Theater, Vienna
Hoffman, François-Benoit
Hoffmann, E.T.A.; influence on Wagner
Hoffmann, G. D. von
Hoffmann, William M.
Hoffmeister, Franz Anton
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
Hof Triebschen, Switzerland
Hogarth, William
Hoiby, Lee
Holberg, Ludvig
Holbrooke, Joseph
Hölderin, Friedrich
Holger Danske (Ogien the Dane—Kunzen)
Holländarn (Lidholm)
Hollandse Opera, Amsterdam
Höllisch Gold, Das (The Infernal Gold—Bittner)
Holst, Gustav
Holstein, Franz von
Holy Grail, legend of
Holy Roman Empire; see also Habsburgs
Holzbauer, Ignaz
Homecoming, The (O’Neill)
Homeless Ones (Somers)
Homer
Homeric World, The. See Homerische Welt (Bungert)
Homerische Welt (The Homeric World—Bungert)
Honegger, Arthur
Hongdeng ji (The Story of the Red Lantern)
Hong Kong, China
Hong Sheng
Honzovro království (Jonny’s Kingdom—Ostrčil)
Höpken, Arvid von
Hopkinson, Francis
Hopper, Edward
Hopper’s Wife (Wallace)
hornpipe (dance)
horns; Alpine
horror opera
Horseman, The. See Ratsumies (Sallinen)
Hörth, Franz Ludwig
Hosenrolle. See trouser roles
Høstgildet (Harvest Home—Schulz)
Hostile Power. See The Power of Evil
House with Two Doors, The. See Has med dubbel ingång (Rosenberg)
Houston, Texas
Houston Grand Opera
Hovhaness, Alan
Howard, Sidney
Hrabrina (The Countess—Moniuszko)
huaju (drama)
Hubay, Jenö
Huber, Hans
Huber, Klaus
Hubička (The Kiss—Smetana)
Huemac (Rogatis)
Hugh the Drover; or, Love in the Stocks (Vaughan Williams)
Hughes, Arwel
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Victor
Huguenots, Les (Meyerbeer)
Huguenots, Les (Scribe)
Hulda (Franck)
Human Voice, The. See La Voix humaine (Poulenc)
Humfrey, Pelham
Humperdinck, Engelbert
Hungary: King of; national opera of
Hunt, The. See Die Jagd (Weisee and Hiller)
Hunted, The (O’Neill)
Hunting Party of Henry IV, The. See La Partie de chasse de Henri IV, La (Collet)
Hunyady László (Erkel)
Hurricane, The. See L’Ouragan (Bruneau)
Hurricane, The. See L’uragano (Rocca)
Huysmans, Joris Karl
Hwang, David Henry
hymn(s); for French festivals; choral; Christian; Baptist; Protestant; Gospel; hymn-like tunes; revival
Ibert, Jacques
Ibsen, Henrik
Ice Break, The (Tippett)
I Ching
Ichneutai (Sophocles)
Idalia (Gurjão)
Idomeneo, re di Creta (Idomeneus, King of Crete—Mozart)
Idomeneo, re di Creta (Varesco)
Idomeneus, King of Crete. See Idomeneo, re di Creta (Mozart).
Ifigenia in Aulide (Jommelli)
Ifigenia in Aulide (Mayr); see also Il sacrifizio d’Ifigenia
Ifigenia in Aulide (Verazi)
Ifigenia in Tauride (Majo)
Ifigenia in Tauride (Traetta)
Igrok (The Gambler—Prokofiev)
Igroki (Gorky)
Igroki (The Gamblers—Shostakovich)
Ildegonda (Morales)
Illa-Cori (Robles)
Ilias, Die (Bungert)
Illica, Luigi
Illsebill (Klose)
Ilustración, La
Il’ya bogatir’ (Ilya the Hero—Cavos)
Ilya the Hero. See Il’ya bogatir’ (Cavos)
Imelda (Donizetti)
Immortal Hour, The (Boughton)
Imperial Conservatory, St. Petersburg
Imperial Gagaku Ensemble, Japan
Importance of Being Ernest, The (Castelnuovo-Tedesco)
Importance of Being Ernest, The (Wilde)
impresario(s); organizational system of
Impresario, The. See Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart)
Impresario delle Canarie, L’ (Metastasio)
Impressionism, in French opera; in twentieth-century Italian opera; in twentieth-century German opera; influence on Czech opera; in Finnish opera; in American opera
improvisation; improvised comedy
“Im Treibhaus” (Wagner)
Incognita perseguitata L’ (The Persecuted Incognita—Anfossi)
Incontro improvviso, L’ (The Unexpected Meeting—Haydn)
Incoronazione di oppea, L’ (The Coronation of Poppea—Monteverdi); attribution for; see also La coronatione di Poppea
Incredible Shoemaker’s Wife, The; see Die wundersame Schusterfrau (U. Zimmermann)
In Dahomey (Cook)
Indes galantes, Les (The Amorous Indies—Rameau)
India: music of
India, Sigismondo d’
Indian Princess, The (Barker and Bray)
Indian Queen, The (Purcell)
Indigena, La (The Native Girl—Fumi)
Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (J. Strauss)
Indropica, L’ (Guarini)
Indy, Vincent d’
Infernal Gold, The. See Das höllisch Gold (Bittner)
Inferno (Dante)
Infidelio (Lutyens)
Inganno fedele, L’ (The Faithful Deception—Keiser)
Inganno felice, L’ (The Happy Deception—Rossini)
Ingegneri, Angelo
Ingegneri, Marc’ Antonio
Ingwelde (Schillings)
Innocence Defended. See Innocenza difesa (V. Mazzocchi)
Innocence Vindicated. See Innocenza giustificata (Gluck)
Innocent X, pope
Innocenza difesa, L’ (Innocence Defended—V. Mazzocchi)
Innocenza giustificata (Innocence Vindicated—Gluck); revised as La Vestale
Innsbruck, Austria
Insect Life. See Haönteiselämää (K. Aho)
In seine Freyheit vergnügte Alcibiades, Der. See La libertà contenta (Steffani)
In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplín Belisa (Don Perlimplin Belisa, in His Garden—Fortner)
Inspector General, The. See Arift khardakhutyunê (Tchukhatjian)
interludes: scenic; instrumental (orchestral); symphonic; choral; variety of, in Hagen; see also act tunes
intermèdes
intermedio (intermedi); integrated with comedy; as forerunner of opera
intermezzo(s); independent of host opera; as afterpiece; Neapolitan type of; maid-mistress theme in; Roman type of; of Holst; see also buffo-bass; cantabile; duet
Intermezzo (R. Strauss)
“interrupted song,” in Wagner
Interrupted Sacrifical Feast, The. See Das unterbrochene Opferfest (Winter)
In the Bright Sunshine, Heavy with Love. See Algran sole carico d’amore (Nono)
In the Fire. See Ugunĩ (J. Kalniņš)
Intolleranza 1960 (Nono)
Intolleranza 1970 (Nono)
Into the Storm. See V buryu (Khrennikov)
Intrique and Love. See Kabale und Liebe (Einem)
introducción
Invisible, The. See Der Unsichtbare (Eule)
Iolanta (Tchaikovsky)
Ionesco, Eugene
Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides)
Iphigenia myth
Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck)
Iphigénie en Tauride (Desmarest and Campra)
Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck)
Ipocondriaco, L (Villifranchi)
Ippolito ed Arice (Traetta)
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich
Irene (Keil)
Irene de Otranto (Serrano y Ruiz)
Iris (Mascagni)
Irische Legende (Egk)
Irish Melodies (T. Moore)
Irrelohe (Schreker)
Irving, Washington
Isänmaan tyttäet (Daughters of the Fatherland—Kuusisto)
Iscariota, L’ (G. F. Malipiero)
Isis (Lully)
Isis and Osiris (Lutyens)
Island of Madmen, The. See L’Isle des foux (Duni)
Islanders, The. See Salineki (A. Kalniņš)
Isle des foux, L’ (The Island of Madmen—Duni)
Isle of Spirits, The. See Die Geisterinsel (Zumsteeg)
Ismene (Keiser)
Isouard, Nicolo
Israel
Israel in Egypt (Handel)
Israel, Robert
Issé (Destouches)
Issipile (F. Conti)
Issipile (Hasse)
Issipile (Metastasio)
Issipile (Sarti)
Istambul, Tukey
Istrian Wedding. See Nozze istriane (Smareglia)
Italiana in Algeri, L’ (The Italian Girl in Algiers—Rossini)
Italiana in Londra, L (The Italian Girl in London—Cimarosa)
Italian Gluck, The. See Jommelli
Italian Girl in Algiers, The. See L’ italiana in Algeri (Rossini)
Italian Girl in London, The. See L’italiana in Londra (Cimarosa)
Italian Lesson, The (Hoiby)
Italian opera: beginnings in; German songs in early Italian; influence of, on opera in Germany; influence of, on opera in France; in London; old/new types compared; Mozart and; nineteenth-century opera in; Risorgimento in; influence of, on opera in Spain and Portugal; reaction against, in Spain; in Portugal; in Latin America; in England; United States and; twentieth-century opera in
Italian Theater, Paris
Italy; guilds in; academies in
Ivan Susanin (Cavos)
Ivan Susanin (Glinka)
Ivanhoe (Scott)
Ivanhoe (Sullivan)
Ivanovich, Cristoforo
Ives, Charles
I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Adams)
Izaht (Villa-Lobos)
Jackson, Andrew
Jacobin. See Jakobin (Dvořák)
Jadwiga królowa Polska (Jadwiga, Queen of Poland—Kurpiński)
Jadwiga, Queen of Poland. See Jadwiga królowa Polska (Kurpiński)
Jagd, Die (The Hunt—Weisse and Hiller)
Jahreslauf, Der (The Course of Time—Stockhausen)
Jakobín (Jacobin—Dvořák)
James, Henry
James I, king of England
James II, king of England
Jamestown, Virginia
Janáček, Leoš
Janissary music. See Turkish miltary band music
Jánošík (K. Hába)
Jánošík, Juro
Janus (Keiser)
Japanese nō drama
Japanese subjects, in opera; settings; songs; see also comic opera
Jardín de orienta (Oriental Garden—Turina)
Jarecki, Henryk
Jarman, Douglas
Jarnach, Philipp
Jaroměřice, Moravia
Jasager, Der (The One Who Consents—Weill)
jazz: elements of, in opera; styles related to; instrumentation; dance idioms of; rhythms of; opera; New Orleans style of; see also blues; shimmy
Jealousy, Even From the Breeze, Kills. See Celos aun del aire matan (Hildago)
Jealousy Produces Stars. See Los celos hacen estrellas (Vélez de Guevara)
Jean de Nivelle (Delibes)
Jean de Paris (Boieldieu)
Jeanie Deans (MacCunn)
Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake—Honegger)
Jeannette’s Wedding. See Les Noces de Jeannette (Massé)
Jeannot et Colin (Isouard)
Jenko, Davorin
Jenny, or The Hundred Nights (Weisgall)
Jenůfa (Janáček)
Jephté (Pignolet de Montéclair)
Jerusalem: anniversary of
Jerusalem (Verdi); see also I Lombardi
Jérusalem délivrée (Persuis)
Jerusalem Liberated. See Gerusalemme liberata (Pallavicino)
Jessonda (Spohr)
Jesu Hochzeit (Einem)
Jesuits and school dramas
Jeu de Robin et de Marion, Le (Adam de la Halle)
Jeu de Robin et de Marion, Le (Milhaud)
Jeune Sage et le vieux fou, Le (The Young Sage and the Old Fool—Méhul)
Jewels of the Madonna, The. See I gioielli della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari)
Jewess, The. See La Juive (Halévy)
Jiang Qing
Jiménez, Miguel Bernal. See Bernal Jiménez.
Jinagsu Province Kunqu Institute
Joana de Flandres (Gomes)
Joan of Arc at the Stake. See Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Honegger)
Jocelyn (Godard)
Joconde (Isouard)
Joe Hill:The Man Who Never Died (Bush)
Johnny Johnson (Weill)
John of Leyden
Johnny Strikes Up the Band. See Jonny spielt auf (Krenek)
Johns, Erik. See Horace Everett
Johnson, Samuel
Johnston, Charles
Johnston, Denis
Jommelli, Niccolò; “abduction” opera
Jone (Petrella)
Jones, Inigo
Jongleur de Notre Dame, Le (Davies)
Jongleur de Notre Dame, Le (Massenet)
jongleurs
Jonny’s Kingdom. See Honzovro královstvi (Ostrcřil)
Jonny spielt auf (Johnny Strikes Up the Band—Krenek)
Jonson, Ben
Joplin, Scott
Joseph (Méhul)
Joseph I, (Habsburg) emperor
Joseph II, (Habsburg) emperor
Joseph and his Brethren. See Yusufile züleyha (Demiriz)
Josephine, empress of France
Jot, oder Wann kommt der Herr zurück (K. Huber)
Journal des débats, Le
Journal de Paris, Le
Journey, The. See Resan (Werle)
Journey to America. See Resa till Amerika (Rosenberg)
Journey to Reims, The. See Il viaggio à Reims (Rossini)
Jouy, Étienne
Joyeuse, Duc de
Judith (Durey)
Judith (Honegger)
Judith. See Yudif (Serov)
Jugar con fuego (To Play with Fire—Barbieri)
Juha (J.Aho)
Juha (Madetoja)
Juha (A. Merikanto)
Juif volé, Le (liturgical drama)
Julia (Kelterborn)
Julien (G. Charpentier)
Julietta (Martinů)
Juilliard School of Music
Juive, La (The Jewess—Halévy)
Juive, La (Scribe)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Julius Caesar Jones (Williamson)
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The (Foss)
Junge Lord, Der (The Young Lord—Henze)
Junge Siegfried, Der (The Young Siegfried—Wagner)
Jungfrau i tornet (The Maid in the Tower—Sibelius)
Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love—Einem)
Kabale und Liebe (Schiller)
Kaballah (Wallace)
Kabelia (Sanches de Fuentes)
K’adj Nazar (Brave Nazar—Step’anyan)
Kafka, Franz
Kagel, Maurice
Kain (Albert)
Kaiser, George
Kaivos (The Mine—Rautavaara)
Kaksi kuningatarta (Two Queens—Raitio)
Kalevala
Kallman, Chester
Kálmán, Emmerich
Kalniņš, Alfrēds
Kalniņš, Jānis
Kalomiris, Manolis
Kamennïy gost’ (The Stone Guest—Dargomïzhsky)
Kamieński, Maciej
Kammermusik No. 1 (Hindemith)
Kammerspiel, Vienna
Kandinsky, Wassily
kantele
Kapitulation, Eine (Wagner)
Kapp, Eugen
Karamzin, N.M.
Karel, Rudolf
Karl V (Krenek)
Karlsruhe, Germany
Karnavičius, Jurgis
Kärntnertor Theater, Vienna
Karyağdi Hatun (Demiriz)
Kaschey the Immortal. See Kashchey bessmertnïy (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Kashchey bessmertnïy (Kaschey the Immortal—Rimsky-Korsakov)
Kát’a Kabanová (Janáček)
Katerina Izmailova (Shostakovich); see also Ledi Makbet
Kauer, Ferdinand
Kaufmann von Smyrna, Der (The Merchant from Smyrna—Vogler)
Kay, Hershy
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Keil, Alfredo
Keiser, Reinhard; at Copenhagen; Handel and; thematic borrowings; influence on Handel
Kékszakállú herceg vára, A (Balázs)
Kékszakállú herceg vára, A (Bluebeard’s Castle—Bartók)
Keller, Gottfried
Kellgren, Johan Henrik
Kelterborn, Rudolf
Kenilworth (Scott)
Keofar (Villanueva)
Kepler, Johannes
Kerem (Saygun)
Kerll, Johann Caspar
Kern, Jerome
Kessler, Claire
keys: in arias of Handel, in finales of Mozart; in Spohr; in Milhaud
Khlebnikov, Velimir
Khovanshchina (Musorgsky)
Khrennikov, Tikhon
Kianto, Illman
Kidnaping of Europa, The. See L’Enlèvement d’Europe (Milhaud)
Kienzl, Wilhelm
Kind, Friedrich
Kinder- und Hausmärchen (J. and W. Grimm)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King Adolphs’ Hunting Party. See Konung Gustaf Adolphs Jagt (Stenborg)
King and Marshal. See Drot og marsk (Heise)
King and the Farmer, The. See Le Roy et le fermier (Monsigny)
King Arthur (Purcell)
King Arthur. See Le roi Arthus (Chausson)
King Charles’ Hunt. See Kung Carls Jakt (Pacius)
King David. See Le Roi David (Honegger)
King Goes Forth to France, The. See Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (Sallinen)
King Gustavus Adolphus’s Hunting Party. See Konung Gustaf Adolphs Jagt (Stenborg)
King Harald’s Saga (Weir)
King in Spite of Himself, The. See Le Roi malgré lui (Chabrier)
King Lear (Bloch)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
King Lear. See Il re Lear (Verdi)
King Lear. See Kuningas Lear (Sallinen)
King Lokietek. See Król Łokietek (Elsner)
King Pinard. See Le Roi Pinard (Séverac)
King Priam (Tippett)
King Roger. See Król Roger (Szymanowski)
King Said So, The. See Roi l’a dit (Delibes)
King’s Henchman, The (Taylor)
King’s Son from Ithaca, The. See Der Königgsohn aus Ithaka, Der (Hoffmeister)
King Stag. See Der König Hirsch (Henze)
King Stephen. See König Stephan
King’s Theater (Drury Lane), London
King Theodore in Venice. See Il ré Teodoro in Venezia (Paisiello)
King, William G.
Kingdom Is Yours, The. See Riket är ditt (Forssell)
Kirke (Bungert)
Kiss, The. See Hubička (Smetana)
Kistler, Cyrill
Kitezh. See Skazanie … Kitezhe (Rimsky-Korsakov)
kithara
Kivi, Aleksis
Klaipeda, Lithuania
Kleist, Heinrich von
Kleopatra (Enna)
klezmer folk dances
Klose, Friedrich
Klughardt, August
Knaben Wunderhorn, Des (Arnim and Brentano)
Knez od Zete (The Prince of Zeta—Konjovič)
Knickerbocker Holiday (Weill)
Knight Bluebeard. See Ritter Blaubart (Rezniček)
Knight of the Leopard, The (Balfe)
Knot Garden, The (Tippett)
Knyaz Igor (Prince Igor—Borodin)
Kobold, Der (The Goblin—Himmel)
Kodály, Zoltán
Kokkonen, Joonas
Komödienhaus, Dresden
Komödienhaus, Innsbruck
Kondek, Charles
Kong Shangren
König Hirsch, Der (King Stag—Henze)
Königin von Saba, Die (The Queen of Sheba—Goldmark)
Königskinder (Humperdinck)
Königssohn aus Ithaka, Der (The King’s Son from Ithaca—Hoffmeister)
König Stephan (King Stephen—Beethoven’s incidental music to)
Konjovic, Petar
Konrad Wallenrod (Żeleński)
Konstantinos o Palaeologos, i Piran tin Poli (Constantine Palaeologue, or They Took the City—Kalomiris)
Konung Gustaf Adolphs Jagt (King Gustaf Adolphs’ Hunting Party—Stenborg)
Körner, Karl Theodor
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang
Korngold, Julius
Köroğlu (Saygun)
Kosakkerne (The Cossacks—Elling)
Kosovo, Serbia
Kostana (Konjovič:)
Koukos, Periklis
Kounadis, Arghyris
Kovařovic, Karl
Krämerspiegel (Shopkeeper’s Mirror—R. Strauss)
Kraunas, Lithuania
Kraus, Joseph Martin
Krauss, Clemens
Krenek, Ernst
Kreutzer, Konradin
Kreutzer, Rodolphe
Kreutzer Sonata (Beethoven)
Kreuzfahrer (The Crusaders—Spohr)
Křicka, Jaroslav
Krieger, Johann Philipp
Krohn, Ilmari
Krojanker, E.T.
Król Łokietek (King Lokietek—Elsner)
Król Roger (King Roger—Szymanowski)
Kroměříž, Moravia
Kronbruden (The Crown Bride—Rangström)
Kruchenyh, Alexej
Krumme Teufel, Der (The Wry Devil—Haydn)
Krútnava (The Whirlpool—Suchoň)
Kudrun (H. Huber)
Kuhlau, Friedrich
Kuhlau, Johann
Kuljerić, Igor
Kullervo (Kivi)
Kullervo (Launis)
Kullervo (Sallinen)
Kung Carls Jakt (King Charles’ Hunt—Pacius)
Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan (The King Goes Forth to France—Sallinen)
Kuningas Lear (King Lear—Sallinen)
kunju; see also kunqu
kunqu
Kunstwerk der Zukunft, Das (Wagner)
Kunzen, Freidrich Ludwig Aemilius
Kupets Kalashnikov (The Merchant Kalashnikov—Rubinstein)
Kurka, Robert
Kurpiński, Karol
Kurz, Johann. See Bernardon
Kusser (Cousser, Cusser), Johann Sigis mund
Kuusisto, Ilkka
Kuznets Vakula (Vakula the Smith—Tchaikovsky); see also Cherevichki