Stories from the Operas

STORIES FROM THE OPERAS
ISOLDA SNATCHED THE CUP FROM HIS TREMBLING HAND, & DRANK.
BY GLADYS DAVIDSON Author of Two Hundred Opera Plots, The Old Testament Story PHILADELPHIA J. B. Lippincott Company Printed in Great Britain

PREFACE
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 libretto in the clear, readable form of a short story; and it is hoped that the combined volume will continue to prove of interest, not only to opera-goers but to all lovers of dramatic tales. The three volumes have been entirely reset and re-collated in a manner which it is hoped will make them easier for reference.

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 libretti , etc.:—
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.)