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The Complete Opera Book The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation By Gustav Kobbé
FOREWORD
Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Complete Opera Book
Schools of Opera
Opera Before Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
ORFEO ED EURIDICE ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
ARMIDE
IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
DON GIOVANNI
THE MAGIC FLUTE DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
Ludwig van Beethoven
FIDELIO
Weber and his Operas
DER FREISCHÜTZ
EURYANTHE
OBERON, OR THE ELF-KING’S OATH
Why Some Operas are Rarely Given
From Weber to Wagner
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
RIENZI, DER LETZTE DER TRIBUNEN RIENZI, THE LAST OF THE TRIBUNES
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF DEM WARTBURG (AND THE SONG CONTEST AT THE WARTBURG)
LOHENGRIN
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG
INTRODUCTION
DAS RHEINGOLD THE RHINEGOLD
DIE WALKÜRE THE VALKYR
SIEGFRIED
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG DUSK OF THE GODS
THE PROLOGUE
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
THE VORSPIEL
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG THE MASTERSINGERS OF NUREMBURG
PARSIFAL
THE VORSPIEL
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
SEMIRAMIDE
GUILLAUME TELL WILLIAM TELL
Vincenzo Bellini (1802-1835)
LA SONNAMBULA THE SLEEPWALKER
NORMA
I PURITANI THE PURITANS
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
L’ELISIRE D’AMORE THE ELIXIR OF LOVE
LUCREZIA BORGIA
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT—THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT.
LA FAVORITA THE FAVORITE
LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX LINDA OF CHAMOUNIX
DON PASQUALE
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
ERNANI
RIGOLETTO
IL TROVATORE THE TROUBADOUR
LA TRAVIATA THE FRAIL ONE
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA THE MASKED BALL
BEFORE AND AFTER “UN BALLO”
AÏDA
OTELLO OTHELLO
FALSTAFF
MEFISTOFELE (MEPHISTOPHELES)
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
LA GIOCONDA THE BALLAD SINGER
French Opera
Méhul to Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
ROBERT LE DIABLE ROBERT THE DEVIL
LES HUGUENOTS THE HUGUENOTS
LE PROPHÈTE THE PROPHET
L’AFRICAINE THE AFRICAN
L’ÉTOILE DU NORD AND DINORAH
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
BENVENUTO CELLINI
BEATRICE AND BENEDICT
LES TROYENS THE TROJANS
PART I. “LA PRISE DE TROIE” The Capture of Troy
PART II. “LES TROYENS À CARTHAGE” The Trojans in Carthage
LA DAMNATION DE FAUST THE DAMNATION OF FAUST
F. von Flotow
MARTHA
Charles François Gounod (1818-1893)
FAUST
ROMÉO ET JULIETTE ROMEO AND JULIET
Ambroise Thomas
MIGNON
Georges Bizet
CARMEN
LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES THE PEARL FISHERS
DJAMILEH
Italian Opera Since Verdi
Pietro Mascagni (1863- )
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA RUSTIC CHIVALRY
L’AMICO FRITZ FRIEND FRITZ
IRIS
LODOLETTA
ISABEAU
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858- )
PAGLIACCI CLOWNS
Giacomo Puccini (1858- )
LE VILLI
MANON LESCAUT
LA BOHÈME THE BOHEMIANS
TOSCA
MADAMA BUTTERFLY MADAM BUTTERFLY
LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST)
LA RONDINE THE SWALLOW
ONE-ACT OPERAS
Riccardo Zandonai
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI FRANCESCA OF RIMINI
Franco Leoni
L’ORACOLO THE SAGE
Italo Montemezzi
L’AMORE DEI TRE RE THE LOVE OF THREE KINGS
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
I GIOJELLI DELLA MADONNA (THE JEWELS OF THE MADONNA)
Umberto Giordano
MADAME SANS-GÊNE
ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
Modern Italian Opera
ERO E LEANDRO
CONCHITA
CRISTOFORO COLOMBO
CRISPINO E LA COMARE (The Cobbler and the Fairy)
LORELEY
FEDORA
GERMANIA
Modern French Opera
LAKMÉ
SAMSON ET DALILA
LE ROI D’YS
GRISÉLIDIS
THAÏS
MANON
LE CID
DON QUICHOTTE
CENDRILLON CINDERELLA
LA NAVARRAISE
LE JONGLEUR DE NÔTRE DAME
WERTHER
HÉRODIADE
SAPHO
CLÉOPÂTRE
LOUISE
SALAMMBÔ
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE
APHRODITE
L’ATTAQUE DU MOULIN THE ATTACK ON THE MILL
ARIANE ET BARBE-BLEUE ARIADNE AND BLUE-BEARD
MONNA VANNA
GISMONDA
MAROUF, THE COBBLER OF CAIRO
LE SAUTERIOT THE GRASSHOPPER
LA REINE FIAMMETTE QUEEN FIAMMETTE
LE CHEMINEAU THE WAYFARER
LE VIEIL AIGLE THE OLD EAGLE
Modern German and Bohemian Opera
ST. ELIZABETH
THE BARBER OF BAGDAD
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH
KÖNIGSKINDER KING’S CHILDREN
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL
THE GOLDEN CROSS
VERSIEGELT SEALED IN
DER TROMPETER VON SÄKKINGEN THE TRUMPETER OF SÄKKINGEN
DER EVANGELIMANN THE EVANGELIST
DER KUHREIGEN RANZ DES VACHES
LOBETANZ
DER CORREGIDOR THE MAGISTRATE
Richard Strauss
FEUERSNOT FIRE FAMINE
GUNTRAM
SALOME
ELEKTRA
DER ROSENKAVALIER THE KNIGHT OF THE ROSE
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS ARIADNE ON NAXOS
DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT THE BARTERED BRIDE
Russian Opera
RUSSLAN AND LUDMILLA
PRINCE IGOR
BORIS GODOUNOFF
EUGEN ONEGIN
PIQUE-DAME THE QUEEN OF SPADES
LE COQ D’OR THE GOLDEN COCK
MANRU
American Opera
THE SACRIFICE
THE PIPE OF DESIRE
SHANEWIS, OR THE ROBIN WOMAN
THE TEMPLE DANCER
THE LEGEND
NATOMAH
MONA
CYRANO
THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS
Spanish Opera
GOYESCAS
INDEX
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