The Complete Opera Book

About this eBook

Author

Kobbé, Gustav, 1857-1918

Title

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

Credits

Produced by Charlene Taylor, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

MT: Music: Musical instruction and study, Composition

Subject

Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.

Category

Text

eBook-No.

40540

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40540

Release Date

August 19, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Complete Opera Book The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation By Gustav Kobbé
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — The Complete Opera Book
5. 5.Schools of Opera
6. 6.Opera Before Gluck
7. 7.Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) — ORFEO ED EURIDICE ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE — ARMIDE — IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
8. 8.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) — LE NOZZE DI FIGARO THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO — DON GIOVANNI — THE MAGIC FLUTE DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
9. 9.Ludwig van Beethoven — FIDELIO
10. 10.Weber and his Operas — DER FREISCHÜTZ — EURYANTHE — OBERON, OR THE ELF-KING’S OATH
11. 11.Why Some Operas are Rarely Given
12. 12.From Weber to Wagner
13. 13.Richard Wagner (1813-1883) — RIENZI, DER LETZTE DER TRIBUNEN RIENZI, THE LAST OF THE TRIBUNES — DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER THE FLYING DUTCHMAN — TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF DEM WARTBURG (AND THE SONG CONTEST AT THE WARTBURG) — LOHENGRIN — DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG — INTRODUCTION — DAS RHEINGOLD THE RHINEGOLD — DIE WALKÜRE THE VALKYR — SIEGFRIED — GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG DUSK OF THE GODS — THE PROLOGUE — TRISTAN UND ISOLDE TRISTAN AND ISOLDE — THE VORSPIEL — DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG THE MASTERSINGERS OF NUREMBURG — PARSIFAL — THE VORSPIEL
14. 14.Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) — IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA THE BARBER OF SEVILLE — SEMIRAMIDE — GUILLAUME TELL WILLIAM TELL
15. 15.Vincenzo Bellini (1802-1835) — LA SONNAMBULA THE SLEEPWALKER — NORMA — I PURITANI THE PURITANS
16. 16.Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) — L’ELISIRE D’AMORE THE ELIXIR OF LOVE — LUCREZIA BORGIA — LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR — LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIMENTO LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT—THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT. — LA FAVORITA THE FAVORITE — LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX LINDA OF CHAMOUNIX — DON PASQUALE
17. 17.Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) — ERNANI — RIGOLETTO — IL TROVATORE THE TROUBADOUR — LA TRAVIATA THE FRAIL ONE — UN BALLO IN MASCHERA THE MASKED BALL — BEFORE AND AFTER “UN BALLO” — AÏDA — OTELLO OTHELLO — FALSTAFF — MEFISTOFELE (MEPHISTOPHELES)
18. 18.Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) — LA GIOCONDA THE BALLAD SINGER
19. 19.French Opera
20. 20.Méhul to Meyerbeer
21. 21.Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) — ROBERT LE DIABLE ROBERT THE DEVIL — LES HUGUENOTS THE HUGUENOTS — LE PROPHÈTE THE PROPHET — L’AFRICAINE THE AFRICAN — L’ÉTOILE DU NORD AND DINORAH
22. 22.Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) — BENVENUTO CELLINI — BEATRICE AND BENEDICT — LES TROYENS THE TROJANS — PART I. “LA PRISE DE TROIE” The Capture of Troy — PART II. “LES TROYENS À CARTHAGE” The Trojans in Carthage — LA DAMNATION DE FAUST THE DAMNATION OF FAUST
23. 23.F. von Flotow — MARTHA
24. 24.Charles François Gounod (1818-1893) — FAUST — ROMÉO ET JULIETTE ROMEO AND JULIET
25. 25.Ambroise Thomas — MIGNON
26. 26.Georges Bizet — CARMEN — LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES THE PEARL FISHERS — DJAMILEH
27. 27.Italian Opera Since Verdi
28. 28.Pietro Mascagni (1863- ) — CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA RUSTIC CHIVALRY — L’AMICO FRITZ FRIEND FRITZ — IRIS — LODOLETTA — ISABEAU
29. 29.Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858- ) — PAGLIACCI CLOWNS
30. 30.Giacomo Puccini (1858- ) — LE VILLI — MANON LESCAUT — LA BOHÈME THE BOHEMIANS — TOSCA — MADAMA BUTTERFLY MADAM BUTTERFLY — LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST) — LA RONDINE THE SWALLOW — ONE-ACT OPERAS
31. 31.Riccardo Zandonai — FRANCESCA DA RIMINI FRANCESCA OF RIMINI
32. 32.Franco Leoni — L’ORACOLO THE SAGE
33. 33.Italo Montemezzi — L’AMORE DEI TRE RE THE LOVE OF THREE KINGS
34. 34.Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari — I GIOJELLI DELLA MADONNA (THE JEWELS OF THE MADONNA)
35. 35.Umberto Giordano — MADAME SANS-GÊNE — ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
36. 36.Modern Italian Opera — ERO E LEANDRO — CONCHITA — CRISTOFORO COLOMBO — CRISPINO E LA COMARE ( The Cobbler and the Fairy ) — LORELEY — FEDORA — GERMANIA
37. 37.Modern French Opera — LAKMÉ — SAMSON ET DALILA — LE ROI D’YS — GRISÉLIDIS — THAÏS — MANON — LE CID — DON QUICHOTTE — CENDRILLON CINDERELLA — LA NAVARRAISE — LE JONGLEUR DE NÔTRE DAME — WERTHER — HÉRODIADE — SAPHO — CLÉOPÂTRE — LOUISE — SALAMMBÔ — PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE — APHRODITE — L’ATTAQUE DU MOULIN THE ATTACK ON THE MILL — ARIANE ET BARBE-BLEUE ARIADNE AND BLUE-BEARD — MONNA VANNA — GISMONDA — MAROUF, THE COBBLER OF CAIRO — LE SAUTERIOT THE GRASSHOPPER — LA REINE FIAMMETTE QUEEN FIAMMETTE — LE CHEMINEAU THE WAYFARER — LE VIEIL AIGLE THE OLD EAGLE
38. 38.Modern German and Bohemian Opera — ST. ELIZABETH — THE BARBER OF BAGDAD — THE TAMING OF THE SHREW — THE QUEEN OF SHEBA — THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH — KÖNIGSKINDER KING’S CHILDREN — HÄNSEL UND GRETEL — THE GOLDEN CROSS — VERSIEGELT SEALED IN — DER TROMPETER VON SÄKKINGEN THE TRUMPETER OF SÄKKINGEN — DER EVANGELIMANN THE EVANGELIST — DER KUHREIGEN RANZ DES VACHES — LOBETANZ — DER CORREGIDOR THE MAGISTRATE
39. 39.Richard Strauss — FEUERSNOT FIRE FAMINE — GUNTRAM — SALOME — ELEKTRA — DER ROSENKAVALIER THE KNIGHT OF THE ROSE — ARIADNE AUF NAXOS ARIADNE ON NAXOS — DIE VERKAUFTE BRAUT THE BARTERED BRIDE
40. 40.Russian Opera — RUSSLAN AND LUDMILLA — PRINCE IGOR — BORIS GODOUNOFF — EUGEN ONEGIN — PIQUE-DAME THE QUEEN OF SPADES — LE COQ D’OR THE GOLDEN COCK — MANRU
41. 41.American Opera — THE SACRIFICE — THE PIPE OF DESIRE — SHANEWIS, OR THE ROBIN WOMAN — THE TEMPLE DANCER — THE LEGEND — NATOMAH — MONA — CYRANO — THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS
42. 42.Spanish Opera — GOYESCAS
43. 43.INDEX — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — W — X — Y — Z
44. 44.Transcriber’s Errata List

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