Stories from the Operas

Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of "Stories from the Operas," it has been decided to re-issue the collection in one volume, and to include in this additional stories of new and popular operas recently produced in England.

The plan of the work, as before, is to present all the incidents of each

AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to express my best thanks to the following Publishing Houses and holders of copyrights for their kind permission to include in this volume the stories of the various operas selected, and for the helpful information they have given me regarding Messrs. Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd., London. (For Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.)
Messrs. Boosey & Co., Ltd., London. (For Auber's Fra Diavolo, Flotow's Martha, and Meyerbeer's Robert the Devil.)
Messrs. Breitkopf & HÄrtel, Leipzic. (For Wagner's Lohengrin and Tristan and Isolda).
Messrs. Brockhaus, Leipzic. (For Humperdinck's KÖnigskinder.)
Messrs. Chappell & Co., Ltd., London. (For Gounod's Faust.)
Messrs. Cramer & Co., Ltd., London. (For Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann.)
Covent Garden Opera House Management. (For courteous assistance.)
Herr Adolph FÜrstner, Berlin, W.10, and Herr S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, W.57. (For Strauss's Elektra and Rosenkavalier.)
(The story of Elektra is published by authorization of Herr Adolph FÜrstner, Berlin, W.10, and Herr S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, W.57. Copyright, 1908, by Adolph FÜrstner, Berlin.)
(The story of Rosenkavalier is published by authorization of Herr Adolph FÜrstner, Berlin, W.10. Copyright, 1909, by Adolph FÜrstner, Berlin, W.10.)

Messrs. Frederick Harris, London. (For Verdi's Il Trovatore.)
Messrs. Heugel et Cie, Paris. (For Thomas's Mignon.)
Messrs. Hutchings & Romer, London. (For Wallace's Maritana.)
Mr. Charles Manners and the Moody-Manners Opera Company. (For Tschaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.)
Messrs. Novello & Co., Ltd., London. (For Beethoven's Fidelio, Bellini's La Sonnambula, Meyerbeer's Star of the North, Verdi's La Traviata and Rigoletto, and Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and TannhÄuser.)
Messrs. Rendle & Co., Ltd., London. (For Bizet's Carmen and Gounod's Philemon and Baucis.)
Messrs. G. Ricordi & Co., London. (For Puccini's La BohÈme, Madam Butterfly and Manon Lescaut.)
Messrs. Schott & Co., Ltd., London. (For Wagner's The Mastersingers, The Nibelung's Ring and Parsifal.)
Herr Josef Weinberger, Vienna. (For Wolf-Ferrari's The Jewels of the Madonna.)

G. D.

CONTENTS

PAGE

Auber—

Fra Diavolo 1

Balfe—

The Bohemian Girl 14

Beethoven—

Fidelio 28

Bellini—

La Sonnambula 38

I Puritani 46

Benedict—

The Lily of Killarney 52

Bizet—

Carmen 62

Donizetti—

Lucrezia Borgia 73

Lucia di Lammermoor 80

The Daughter of the Regiment.
(La Figlia del Reggimento)
87

Flotow—

Martha 95

Gounod—

Faust 105

Philemon and Baucis 115

Romeo and Juliet 125

HalÈvy—

The Jewess. (La Juive) 135

Humperdinck—

Die KÖnigskinder (The Kingly Children) 143

Leoncavallo—

I Pagliacci. (The Mountebanks) 158

Mascagni—

Cavalleria Rusticana. (Rustic Chivalry) 165

Meyerbeer—

Robert the Devil. (Robert le Diable) 171

The Huguenots. (Les Huguenots) 180

Star of the North. (L'Etoile du Nord) 192

Mozart—

The Marriage of Figaro.
(Le Nozze di Figaro)
206

Don Juan. (Don Giovanni) 217

Nicolai—

The Merry Wives of Windsor 229

Offenbach—

The Tales of Hoffmann.
(Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
238

Puccini—

Manon Lescaut 247

La BohÈme 255

Madam Butterfly 270

Rossini—

The Barber of Seville.
(Il Barbiere di Seviglia)
282

Strauss—

Der Rosenkavalier. (The Rose-Bearer) 289

Elektra 301

Thomas—

Mignon 307

Tschaikovsky—

Eugene Onegin 318

Verdi—

Ernani 328

Rigoletto 337

Il Trovatore, or the Gipsy's Vengeance.
(The Troubadour)
348

La Traviata 361

The Masked Ball. (Un Ballo in Maschera) 370

Verdi—continued

AÏda 377

Othello 390

Wagner—

The Flying Dutchman.
(Der Fliegende HollÄnder)
397

TannhÄuser 406

Lohengrin 418

Tristan and Isolda 429

The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
(Die Meistersinger von NÜrnberg)
438

The Nibelungs' Ring. (Der Ring der Nibelungen):—

Part I. The Rhinegold. (Das Rheingold) 449

Part II. The Valkyrie. (Die WalkÜre) 455

Part III. Siegfried 464

Part IV. The Twilight of the Gods.
(Die GÖtterdÄmmerung) 472

Parsifal 480

Wallace—

Maritana 495

Lurline 508

Waltershausen—

Colonel Chabert. (Oberst Chabert) 513

Wolf-Ferrari—

The Jewels of the Madonna.
(I Gioielli della Madonna)
524

Short Biographies of the Composers

Auber 536

Balfe 536

Beethoven 537

Bellini 538

Benedict 538

Bizet 539

Donizetti 540

Flotow 541

Gounod 541

HalÈvy 542

Humperdinck 542

Leoncavallo 543

Mascagni 544

Meyerbeer 544

Mozart 545

Nicolai 546

Offenbach 546

Puccini 548

Rossini 548

Strauss 549

Thomas 551

Tschaikovsky 551

Verdi 552

Wagner 553

Wallace 554

Waltershausen 555

Wolf-Ferrari 555

Alphabetical List of the Operas 557

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