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About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http://books.google.com/ 1 HAR~ARDCOLLEGE LIBRARY THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JANSEN WENDELL CUSS OF 1882 OF NEW YORK . 1918 VERDI The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of The Celebrated Operas With Critical and Biographical Remnrke, Dates, etc., etc. With a Prelude by Juntr Hudu Nera Edith, &vised, with AcEditim~mbd Portrait8 NEW YORK BRENTAN 0'8 1904 HARVARD COLLtet I IBRAOY FROI f THE BEQUEST OF RVE11 IAMtNInn WEND= COPYRIGHT.I& I-. BY BRENTANO'S . INDEX OF THE . OPERAS OoYPOBLR(I . Weber ... Meyerbeer . Vedi .... ...Flotow ... ..Haydn ... Qluck .... Lortzing ... Auber ... Verdi .... Cornelius . Rossini ... RENVENUTOCELLINI ..... Berfinz ... .'BOH~E ......... Puccini ... BYORDER OF HISHIGHNESS . Reinecke . CARLO BROXHI (TEUFEL'S AN- TEEIL) ........Auber ... ' CARMEN......... Bizet .... CAVALLERIARUSTICANA ... Mascagni .. CID ..........Massenet .. COPPELIA ........Delihes ... COSI FAN TUTTE ......Mozart ... CRICKETON THE HEARTH... Goldmark .. Czaa AND ZIMYERYANN... Lortzing ... DALILA ..........SaintSaens .. DAMEBLAKCHE ...... Boieldieu .. DAMNATIOKOF FAUST.... Berlioz ... DEMONIO .........Rubinstein .. DJAMILEH ........Bizet .... Index of the Operas OmM8 COYPO(IXIIII DOMINONo18 .......Auber ... DON CABLOB .......Verdi .... Dox JUAN ........Mozart ... DON PASQUALE...... Donizetti .. DONNADIANA ....... Reznicek .. DRAGONSDE VILLABS ....Maillart ... DUSKOF THE GODS..... Wagner ... ELISIR D'AMOBE...... Donizetti .. ERNANI......... Vedi .... EURYANTEE....... Weber ... EVANGELIMANN...... Kienzl ... PALSTAFF........ Verdi .... FAVOBITA........ Donizetti .. PIDELEO......... Beethoven .. FIGLIADEL REQQIMENTO... Donizetti .. FLYINGDL'TCEMAN ..... Wagner ... FOLKUNGS........ Kretschmer .. FRADIAVOLQ ....... Auber ... FBAUENLOB........ Becker ... FREISCHOTZ .......Weber ... FBIENDFBITZ ......Mascegni .. GENOVEVA........ Schumann .. GOLDENCROSS ....... Brill1 .... GRENADIERS.TWO .....Lortzing ... HAMLET......... Thomas ... HANSELAXD GBETEL ....Humperdinck . HANSHEILIAQ ....Merschner .. HENRYTHE LION...... Kretschmer .. HERQAT......... Dreeseke ... I~OCHZEITSMORGEN..... Kaskel ... HUQUENMS........ Meyerbeer .. IDLEHANS ........ Ritter ... IDOMENEUS........ Mozart ... INQBED......... Grammann .. IPHIGENIAIN AULIS ..... Qltkck .... vi Index of the Operas .........Delibes ... L~HENGBIN........ Wagner ... LOBLE .........F6rster ... LOVE'SBATTLE ......Meyer-Helmund .Lucu DI L~mm~snoo~... Donimtti .. LUCBEZIABowtu .....Donizetti .. MACCABEES........ Rubinstain .. MAGICFLUTE ....... Mozart ... MAIDENSor SCH~DA.... F6rster ... MANON......... Massenet .. MANEU .........Padereweki .. MABGA .........Pittrich ... '&UQUEBITE (OR FAUST) ...Qounod .. MARTHA......... Floh ... ~ASTERSINQE~~OF NUREMBEBO . Wagner ... MAETEE-THIEF ......Lindner ... MASON .........Auber ... ME~STOFELE....... Boito .... MELUSINE........ Grammann .. MERLIN .........Goldmark .. MERRYWm or WINDBOB.. Nicolai ... " MIGNON......... Thomw ... MUETTEDE POBTICI ....Auber ... NACHTLAQEB VON QMNADA (NIBFIT'SCAMP) ..... Kreutzer .. NIBELUNO'S Rwe : I. REINE- QOW ........W-er ... vii Index of the Operas OPERM COIWB= NIBELUNQ'S RING: I1. WAL- KPRIE ........Wagner .. NIBELUNQ'SRINQ : I11 . SIEG- FRIED ........Wagner .. NIBELUNO'SRING : 1V. DUSK OF THE GODS .....Wagner .. NORMA .........Bellini .. Nozzs DI FIGAFLO .....Mozart .. NUEEYBERQDOLL .....Adam .. OBERON......... Weber .. ODYSSEUS'SRETUBN ..... Bungert .. a EUPY~ICE..... Qluck .. XOTEELLO........ Verdi .. PAQLIACC~........ Le0n~avdl0 PAB~IFAL........ Wagner .. PBIL%MONAND BAUCIS.... Qounod .. PINTOS .........Weber .. PIPEROF HAYELN..... Nessler .. POACHER(WILDBCH~~T~) ... Lortzing .. POSTILIONOF LONOJUBIEAC. Adam . PBE~IOSA....... Weber . PB~PHBTE....... - Meyerkr PWRITANI....... Beilini . ' QUEENOF SEIEBA .... Goldmark RXINEQOLD....... Wagner . RIENZI ......... Wagner . ~I~OLETTO....... Verdi . ROBERTLE DIABLE.... Bfeperbetir ROI L'A DIT ....... DBlibes . ROMEOE GIULIETTA .... Gounod . SEDIIRA~~IDX...... Rossini . SERA~I.~~....... Mozart . SIMPPIED....... Wagner . SILVANA........ Weber . SOLDBBIDE ...... Smetana . viii Index of the Operas 0-8 mmm8mn SONNAMBULA....... Bellini . TAMINGOF TEE SHREW ...Goetz .. \\TANNEIW~ER .......Wagner . TELL.......... Rossini . TEMPLARAND TEE JEWESS . Marschner i Tosca .....:... Puccini . TRAVIATA........ Verdi .. ~TRISTANAND ISOLDA ....Wagner . TRUMPETEROF SAEKKINOEN. Nesler . I i JBOVATORE........Verdi .. UNDINE......... Lortzing . URVA~I......... Kienzl . Va~prrr~ ........Mamhner W- ........Wagner . ZA~A......... Herold . ix INDEX OF THE COMPOSERS m1. ADAM,AWLPEE CEABLES.b. July A, 1803, Paris ; d. May 3, 1666, Paris. 1. Nuremberg Doll ..........308 2. Postilion of Longjumeau ....... AUBEB,DAXLEL FRAN~IS ESPBIT, b. Jan. 29, 17f34, Caen (Normandy) ; d. May 12, 1871, Paris. 1. Ballo in Maschers ..........29 2. Carlo ~roschi'(Teufe1'sAntheil) .... 54 3. Domino Noir ...........83 4. Frs Diavolo ...........138 5. Msson .............279 6. Muette de Portici .........298 BECKEB,REINEOLD, b. 1842, Adorf i. V. (Saxony). Frauenlob .............141 BEE THO^. LUDWIGVAN. b. Dec. 16. 1770, Bonn ; d. March 26, 1827, Vienna. Fidelio ..............123 BELLINI,VINCEIZO, b. NOV. 3, 1802, Catanis ; d. Sept. 23, 1835, Puteaux n. Paris. 1. Norms .............301 2. I Puritani ............475 3. Sonnambula ...........404 BERLIOZ,HECTOR. b. Dec. 11, 1805, St. And14 (Dep. Idre); d. March 9, 1889. Paris. 1. Benvenuto Cellini .........46 2, Demnation of Feust ........457 x Index of the Cotnposers POL. BIZET, GJEO~ES, b. Oct !Xi, 1888, Paris; d. June 3, 1876, Paris. 1. Carmen. 67 2. Djamileh . 79 BO~IEU,FPAN~OIS ADBIEN, b. Dec. 16, 1776, Rouen ; d. Oct. 8. 1834, Jamy. 1. Dame Blanche . 13 2. Jean de Paris . 211 BOW, AEBIQO,b. February M, 184!2, Padua, Itsly. Mehtofele . 473 BB~~LL,IOXAZ, b. Nov. 7, 1846, Prosnitz (Moravia). Golden Cross . 168 BUNQEET,AUGUST, b. March 1% 1846, Mflhlheim (Ruhr). Odysseus's Retarn . 316 CJIABBIEB,EMANUEL, b. Jan. 18, 1841, Ambert (Puy de Cbrne). A King Against His Will . 226 COBNELIUS,PETER, b. Dec. 24, 1824, Mayence ; d. Oct. 24, 1874, Mayence. Barber of Bagdad . 37 MLIBES.LEO, b. 1836, St. Germain du Val (Sarthe). 1. Coppelia . 451 2. Lakme . 468 3. Le Roi l'a dit . 383 DONIZ~I,GAETANO, b. NOV.29. 1797. Bergamo; d. April 8, 1848, Bergamo. 1. Don Pasquale . 91 2. L'Elisir IYAmore . 459 3. La Favorita . 483 4. Figlia del Reggimento . 127 6. Lucia di Lammermoor . 243 6. Lucrezia Borgi8 . 246 xi Index of the Composers ML. DRAEBEKE,FELIX, b. Oct. 7, 1835, Coburg. Herrat . 180 FLOTOW,FRIEDEICEI VON, h. April 27, 1812, Itenten- dorf (Mecklenburg) ; d. Jan. 24, 1883, i.' Darmstadt. 1. Aleksandro Strailella . 19 2. Martha . 265 F~~wTEIL,ALBAN,