The Complete Opera Book / The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation

Contents

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Schools of Opera	1
Opera before Gluck	4
Christoph Willibald Gluck, 1714-1787 Orpheus and Eurydice Armide Iphigenia in Tauris	8
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791 Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni Magic Flute	21
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827 Fidelio	54
Carl Maria von Weber, 1786-1826 FreischÜtz Euryanthe Oberon	63
Why Some Operas are rarely given	77
From Weber to Wagner	79
Richard Wagner, 1813-1883 Rienzi Flying Dutchman TannhÄuser Lohengrin Ring of the Nibelung Rheingold—WalkÜre—Siegfried—GÖtterdÄmmerung Tristan and Isolde Meistersinger Parsifal	81
Gioachino Antonio Rossini, 1792-1868 Barber of Seville Semiramide William Tell	293
Vincenzo Bellini, 1802-1835 Sonnambula Norma Puritani	318
Gaetano Donizetti, 1797-1848 Elisire d'Amore Lucrezia Borgia Lucia di Lammermoor Crispino e la Comare	718
Alfred Catalani Loreley	719
Umberto Giordano Fedora	720
Alberto Franchetti Germania	721
Modern French Opera	723
Jacques Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann	723
Delibes LakmÉ	724
Saint-SaËns Samson et Dalila	725
Lalo Roi d'Ys	727
Massenet GrisÉlidis ThaÏs Manon Le Cid Don Quichotte Cinderella Navarraise Jongleur de NÔtre Dame Werther HÉrodiade Sapho ClÉopÂtre	727
Gustave Charpentier Louise	750
Reyer SalammbÔ	752
Debussy PellÉas and MÉlisande	752
Pierre Louÿs Aphrodite	756
Alfred Bruneau Attack on the Mill	758
Paul Dukas Ariadne and Blue-Beard	759
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