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The Complete Opera Book

by Gustav Kobbé

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Foreword
  3. 3Schools of Opera
  4. 4Opera Before Gluck
  5. 5Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
  6. 6Orfeo Ed Euridice — Orpheus and Eurydice
  7. 7Armide
  8. 8Iphigénie en Tauride — Iphigenia in Tauris
  9. 9Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  10. 10Le Nozze di Figaro — The Marriage of Figaro
  11. 11Don Giovanni
  12. 12The Magic Flute die Zauberflöte
  13. 13Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio
  14. 14Weber and His Operas
  15. 15Der Freischütz
  16. 16Euryanthe
  17. 17Oberon, or the Elf-King’s Oath
  18. 18Why Some Operas Are Rarely Given
  19. 19From Weber to Wagner
  20. 20Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
  21. 21Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen — Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes
  22. 22Der Fliegende Holländer — The Flying Dutchman
  23. 23Tannhäuser — Und der Sängerkrieg Auf Dem Wartburg (and the Song Con…
  24. 24Lohengrin
  25. 25Der Ring des Nibelungen — The Ring of the Nibelung
  26. 26Das Rheingold — The Rhinegold
  27. 27Die Walküre — The Valkyr
  28. 28Siegfried
  29. 29Götterdämmerung — Dusk of the Gods
  30. 30Tristan und Isolde — Tristan and Isolde
  31. 31Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg — The Mastersingers of Nuremburg
  32. 32Parsifal
  33. 33Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
  34. 34Il Barbiere di Siviglia — The Barber of Seville
  35. 35Semiramide
  36. 36Guillaume Tell — William Tell
  37. 37Vincenzo Bellini (1802-1835)
  38. 38La Sonnambula — The Sleepwalker
  39. 39Norma
  40. 40I Puritani — The Puritans
  41. 41Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
  42. 42L’Elisire D’Amore — The Elixir of Love
  43. 43Lucrezia Borgia
  44. 44Lucia di Lammermoor
  45. 45La Figlia del Reggimento — La Fille du Régiment — The Daughter of t…
  46. 46La Favorita — The Favorite
  47. 47Linda di Chamounix — Linda of Chamounix
  48. 48Don Pasquale
  49. 49Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
  50. 50Ernani
  51. 51Rigoletto
  52. 52Il Trovatore — The Troubadour
  53. 53La Traviata — The Frail One
  54. 54UN Ballo in Maschera — The Masked Ball
  55. 55Before and After “UN Ballo”
  56. 56Aïda
  57. 57Otello — Othello
  58. 58Falstaff
  59. 59Mefistofele (Mephistopheles)
  60. 60Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
  61. 61La Gioconda — The Ballad Singer
  62. 62French Opera
  63. 63Méhul to Meyerbeer
  64. 64Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
  65. 65Robert le Diable — Robert the Devil
  66. 66Les Huguenots — The Huguenots
  67. 67Le Prophète — The Prophet
  68. 68L’Africaine — The African
  69. 69L’Étoile du Nord and Dinorah
  70. 70Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
  71. 71Benvenuto Cellini
  72. 72Beatrice and Benedict
  73. 73Les Troyens — The Trojans
  74. 74La Damnation de Faust — The Damnation of Faust
  75. 75F. von Flotow Martha
  76. 76Charles François Gounod (1818-1893)
  77. 77Faust
  78. 78Roméo et Juliette — Romeo and Juliet
  79. 79Ambroise Thomas — Mignon
  80. 80Georges Bizet
  81. 81Les Pêcheurs de Perles — The Pearl Fishers
  82. 82Djamileh
  83. 83Italian Opera Since Verdi
  84. 84Pietro Mascagni (1863-)
  85. 85Cavalleria Rusticana — Rustic Chivalry
  86. 86L’Amico Fritz — Friend Fritz
  87. 87Iris
  88. 88Lodoletta
  89. 89Isabeau
  90. 90Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-)
  91. 91Pagliacci — Clowns
  92. 92Giacomo Puccini (1858-)
  93. 93Le Villi
  94. 94Manon Lescaut
  95. 95La Bohème — The Bohemians
  96. 96Tosca
  97. 97Madama Butterfly — Madam Butterfly
  98. 98La Fanciulla del West (the Girl of the Golden West)
  99. 99La Rondine — The Swallow
  100. 100One-Act Operas
  101. 101Riccardo Zandonai — Francesca da Rimini — Francesca of Rimini
  102. 102Franco Leoni — L’Oracolo — The Sage
  103. 103Italo Montemezzi — L’Amore dei Tre Re — The Love of Three Kings
  104. 104Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
  105. 105I Giojelli della Madonna (the Jewels of the Madonna)
  106. 106Umberto Giordano
  107. 107Madame Sans-Gêne
  108. 108André Chénier
  109. 109Modern Italian Opera
  110. 110Conchita
  111. 111Cristoforo Colombo
  112. 112Crispino e la Comare — (The Cobbler and the Fairy)
  113. 113Loreley
  114. 114Fedora
  115. 115Germania
  116. 116Modern French Opera
  117. 117Lakmé
  118. 118Samson et Dalila
  119. 119Le Roi D’Ys
  120. 120Grisélidis
  121. 121Thaïs
  122. 122Manon
  123. 123Le Cid
  124. 124Don Quichotte
  125. 125Cendrillon — Cinderella
  126. 126La Navarraise
  127. 127Le Jongleur de Nôtre Dame
  128. 128Werther
  129. 129Hérodiade
  130. 130Sapho
  131. 131Cléopâtre
  132. 132Louise
  133. 133Salammbô
  134. 134Pelléas et Mélisande
  135. 135Aphrodite
  136. 136L’Attaque du Moulin — The Attack on the Mill
  137. 137Ariane et Barbe-Bleue — Ariadne and Blue-Beard
  138. 138Monna Vanna
  139. 139Gismonda
  140. 140Marouf, the Cobbler of Cairo
  141. 141Le Sauteriot — The Grasshopper
  142. 142La Reine Fiammette Queen Fiammette
  143. 143Le Chemineau — The Wayfarer
  144. 144Le Vieil Aigle — The Old Eagle
  145. 145Modern German and Bohemian Opera
  146. 146St. Elizabeth
  147. 147The Barber of Bagdad
  148. 148The Taming of the Shrew
  149. 149The Queen of Sheba
  150. 150The Cricket on the Hearth
  151. 151Königskinder — King’s Children
  152. 152Hänsel und Gretel
  153. 153The Golden Cross
  154. 154Versiegelt — Sealed In
  155. 155Der Trompeter von Säkkingen — The Trumpeter of Säkkingen
  156. 156Der Evangelimann — The Evangelist
  157. 157Der Kuhreigen — Ranz des Vaches
  158. 158Lobetanz
  159. 159Der Corregidor — The Magistrate
  160. 160Richard Strauss
  161. 161Feuersnot — Fire Famine
  162. 162Guntram
  163. 163Salome
  164. 164Elektra
  165. 165Der Rosenkavalier — The Knight of the Rose
  166. 166Ariadne Auf Naxos — Ariadne on Naxos
  167. 167Die Verkaufte Braut — The Bartered Bride
  168. 168Russian Opera
  169. 169Russlan and Ludmilla
  170. 170Prince Igor
  171. 171Boris Godounoff
  172. 172Eugen Onegin
  173. 173Pique-Dame — The Queen of Spades
  174. 174Le Coq D’Or the Golden Cock
  175. 175Manru
  176. 176American Opera
  177. 177The Sacrifice
  178. 178The Pipe of Desire
  179. 179Shanewis, or the Robin Woman
  180. 180The Temple Dancer
  181. 181The Legend
  182. 182Natomah
  183. 183Mona
  184. 184Cyrano
  185. 185The Canterbury Pilgrims
  186. 186Spanish Opera
  187. 187Goyescas
  188. 188Z
  189. 189Transcriber’s Errata List

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