Photograph of Therese Malten. Evchen. Photograph of Karl Scheidemantel. Hans Sachs. The Standard-Operaglass CONTAINING THE DETAILED PLOTS OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE CELEBRATED OPERAS WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL REMARKS, DATES &c. &c. BY CHARLES ANNESLEY THIRTY FIRST TO THIRTY THIRD THOUSAND REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION DEDICATED TO THERESE MALTEN KÖNIGL. SÄCHS. KAMMERSÄNGERIN (with 2 portraits of Malten and Scheidemantel). LONDON. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO. LIMITED. 17a PATERN0STER ROW. 100 SOUTHWARK STREET. DRESDEN. PARIS. NEW YORK. CARL TITTMANN. BRENTANO'S. LEMCKE & BUECHNER PRAGERSTRASSE 19. AVENUE DE L'OPÉRA 37. 11 EAST 17th STREET. MAYENCE. LONDON. MILAN. PARIS. SAARBACH'S NEWS EXCHANGE. 1911. COPYRIGHT BY A. TITTMANN. (Right of translation reserved.) INDEX OF THE OPERAS. Operas. Composers. Fol. Abu Hassan . Weber . 1 Africaine . Meyerbeer . 3 Aïda . Verdi . 8 Alessandro Stradella . Flotow . 10 Armida . Gluck . 12 Armorer (Waffenschmied) . Lortzing . 14 Ballo in Maschera . Auler . 15 Barber of Bagdad . Cornelius . 18 Barbiere di Seviglia . Rossini . 22 Benvenuto Cellini . Berlins . 25 By Order of His Highness . Keineckt . 30 Carlo Broschi (Teufel's Antheil) . Auber . 33 Carmen . Bizet . 36 Cavalleria Rusticana . Mascagni . 39 Cosi fan tutte . Mozart . 41 Czar and Zimmermann . Lortzing . 43 Dame Blanche . Boieldieu . 46 Demonio . Rubinstein . 49 Domino Noir . Auber . 52 Don Carlos . Verdi . 54 Don Juan . Mozart . 57 Don Pasquale . Donizetti . 59 Dragons de Villars . Maillart . 62 Dusk of the Gods . Wagner . 68 Euryanthe . Weber . 72 Falstaff . Verdi . 75 Fidelio . Beethoven . 78 Figlia del Reggimento . Donizetti . 81 Flying Dutchman . Wagner . 84 Folkungs . Kretschmer . 87 Fra Diavolo . Auber . 90 Frauenlob . Becker . 94 Freischütz . Weber . 98 Friend Fritz . Mascagni . 102 Genoveva . Schumann . 105 Golden Cross . Brüll . 108 Two Grenadiers . Lortzing . 110 Hamlet . Thomas . 114 Hansel and Gretel . Humperdinck . 116 Hans Heiling . Marschner . 121 Henry the Lion . Kretschmer . 125 Herrat . Draeseke . 128 Hochzeitsmorgen . Kaskel . 132 Huguenots . Meyerbeer . 134 Idle Hans . Ritter . 138 Idomeneus . Mozart. 141 Jean de Paris . Boieldieu . 145 Jessonda . Spohr . 148 Ingrid . Grammann . 149 Iphigenia in Aulis . Gluck . 157 Iphigenia in Tauris . Gluck . 153 Josef in Egypt . Méhul . 155 Irrlicht (will-o-the Wisp) . Grammann . 158 Juive . Halévy . 161 Junker Heinz (Sir Harry) . Perfall . 164 King against his will . Chabrier . 168 Lohengrin . Wagner . 172 Lorle . Foerster . 176 Love's Battle . Meyer-Helmund . 181 Lucia die Lammermoor . Donizetti . 183 Lucrezia Borgia . Donizetti . 185 Maccabees . Rubinstein . 188 Magic Flute . Mozart . 191 Maidens of Schilda . Foerster . 195 Marga . Pittrich . 199 Marguerite . Gounod . 201 Martha . Flotow . 203 Master-Singers of Nüremberg . Wagner . 206 Master-Thief . Lindner . 211 Mason . Auber . 215 Melusine . Grammann . 217 Merlin . Goldmark . 222 Merry Wives of Windsor . Nicolai . 225 Mignon . Thomas . 228 Muette de Portici . Auber . 230 Nachtlager von Granada (Night's Rest) Kreutzer . 233 Nibelung's Ring: I. Rhinegold . Wagner . 287 II. Walkyrie . " . 345 III. Siegfried . " . 307 IV. Dusk of the Gods " . 68 Norma . Bellini . 234 Nozze di Figaro . Mozart . 237 Nüremberg Doll . Adam . 241 Oberon . Weber . 244 Orfeo e Eurydice . Gluck . 248 Othello . Verdi . 250 Pagliacci . Leoncavallo . 254 Parsifal . Wagner . 258 Philemon and Baucis . Gounod . 262 Pintos . Weber . 264 Piper of Hameln . Nessler . 268 Poacher (Wildschütz) . Lortzing . 272 Postilion of Longjumeau . Adam . 274 Preciosa . Weber . 277 Prophète . Meyerbeer . 279 Queen of Sheba . Goldmark . 283 Rhinegold . Wagner . 287 Rienzi . Wagner . 290 Rigoletto . Verdi . 292 Robert le Diable . Meyerbeer . 295 Roi l'a dit . Délibes . 299 Romeo e Giulietta . Gounod . 303 Seraglio . Mozart . 305 Siegfried . Wagner . 307 Silvana . Weber . 310 Somnambula . Bellini . 313 Taming of the Shrew . Goetz . 315 Tannhäuser . Wagner . 316 Tell . Rossini . 321 Templar and the Jewess . Marschner . 323 Traviata . Verdi . 325 Tristan and Isolda . Wagner . 327 Trovatore . Verdi . 330 Trumpeter of Saekkingen . Nessler . 332 Undine . Lortzing . 335 Urvasi . Kiensl . 338 Vampire . Marschner . 341 Walkyrie . Wagner . 345 Zampa . Herold . 348 Newly added. Operas. Composers. Fol. Apothecary . Haydn . 350 Djamileh . Bizet . 354 Donna Diana . Reznicek . 357 Sold Bride . Smetana . 363 1897/98: Ballo in Maschera . Verdi . 368 The Cricket on the Hearth . Goldmark . 372 The Evangelimann . Kiensl . 376 Odysseus' Return . Bungert . 380 1899: Bearskin . Siegfr. Wagner . 389 Cid . Peter Cornelius . 398 Kirke . Bungert . 403 Added in 1900. Delila . Camille Saint-Saëns 420 Departure . Eugène d'Albert 417 Ernani . Giuseppe Verdi 410 Werther . J. E. F. Massenet 413 1901/2. Nausikaa . August Bungert 423 Manru . J. Paderewski 430 Feuersnot . Richard Strauss 433 Hoffmann's Tales . Jacques Offenbach 437 1903/4. Alpine King and the Misanthrope . Leo Blech 442 Manon Lescaut . J. E. F. Massenet 449 Odysseus' Death . August Bungert 456 Tosca . Giacomo Puccini 462 1905/6. Barfüssele . Richard Heuberger 469 Bohème . Giacomo Puccini 475 Fledermaus . Johann Strauss 479 1906. Flauto Solo . Eugène d'Albert 484 Moloch . Max Schillings 490 Salome . Richard Strauss 496 1907. Die Schönen von Fogaras . Alfred Grünfeld 500 Tiefland . Eugène d'Albert 506 Madame Butterfly . Giacomo Puccini 513 1908. Acté . Joan Manén 518 1909. Eugene Onegin . P. J. Tschaikowsky 524 Elektra . Richard Strauss 528 Versiegelt . Leo Blech 533 INDEX OF THE COMPOSERS. Fol. Adam (Adolphe) b. July 24th 1803 Paris, d. May 3rd 1856 Paris 1. Nuremberg Doll . 241 2. Postilion of Lonjumeau . 274 Auber (Daniel François Esprit) b. Jan. 29th 1784 Caën (Normandy), d. May 13th 1871 Paris 1. Ballo in Maschera . 15 2. Carlo Broschi (Teufels Antheil) . 33 3. Domino Noir . 62 4. Fra Diavolo . ..