VON WALTERSHAUSEN
Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen was born in Göttingen in 1882, and was the son of a Strasburg Professor of National Economics, A. Sartorius von Waltershausen, being descended from a well-known Göttingen family of scientists. He was the pupil of I. Erb, in Strasburg, Elsass, and Ludwig Thuille, afterwards passing to the University of Munich, where he studied in particular the History of Art and also made a special study of the characteristics of the German peoples. His first musical work was the unpublished music-drama, Pelegrino, and his second effort was Else Klapperzehen, a musical comedy dealing with a farcical subject taken from the German Middle Ages, and which was produced in May, 1909, by Ernst von Schuch at the Court Theatre, Munich, with success. His third work, the musical tragedy, Oberst Chabert, was given under the conductorship of Hans Schilling-Ziemssens Leitung, 18th January, 1912, and, being immediately successful, found its way very quickly into all the more important theatres. In addition to these works, Herr von Waltershausen has also written purely literary works, amongst others the Festival Play, Die Abschiedssyphonie, produced in Munich in 1908, the comedy in verse, Heidhart Fuchs von Reuenthal, as well as portions of a translation of Horace in very modern form. Herr von Waltershausen resides in Munich.
WOLF-FERRARI
Ermanni Wolf-Ferrari was born 12th January, 1876, at Venice. He studied under Rheinberge at Munich from 1893 to 1895; and in 1902 he was appointed Director of the Liceo Benedetto Marcello in Venice, from which position he resigned in 1909, as he desired to live in Germany. He produced his first opera, La Sulamita, at Venice in 1889 before he went to Munich, this work being the result of his own self-teaching. Other operas followed: Cenerentola, produced at Venice in 1902; Le Donne Curiose, in 1903, this latter opera having been recently produced with success in America. His fine cantata, La Vita Nuova, dealing with the subject of Dante and Beatrice, was brought out in 1903. A light opera, The Secret of Susanna, followed this, and was produced in England in 1911; and his dramatic opera, The Jewels of the Madonna, was given in England during the summer of 1912.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF OPERAS
| OPERA | COMPOSER | PAGE |
| Aïda | Verdi | [377] |
| Barber of Seville, The (Il Barbiere di Seviglia) | Rossini | [282] |
| Bohème, La | Puccini | [255] |
| Bohemian Girl, The | Balfe | [14] |
| Carmen | Bizet | [62] |
| Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) | Mascagni | [165] |
| Chabert, Colonel (Oberst Chabert) | Waltershausen | [513] |
| Daughter of the Regiment, The (La Figlia del Reggimento) | Donizetti | [87] |
| Don Juan (Don Giovanni) | Mozart | [217] |
| Elektra | Strauss | [301] |
| Ernani | Verdi | [328] |
| Eugene Onegin | Tschaikovsky | [318] |
| Faust | Gounod | [105] |
| Fidelio | Beethoven | [28] |
| Figaro, The Marriage of (Le Nozze di Figaro) | Mozart | [206] |
| Flying Dutchman, The (Der Fliegende Holländer) | Wagner | [397] |
| Fra Diavolo | Auber | [1] |
| Huguenots, The (Les Huguenots) | Meyerbeer | [180] |
| Jewels of the Madonna, The (I Gioielli della Madonna) | Wolf-Ferrari | [524] |
| Jewess, The (La Juive) | Halèvy | [135] |
| Königskinder, Die (The Kingly Children) | Humperdinck | [143] |
| Lily of Killarney, The | Benedict | [52] |
| Lohengrin | Wagner | [418] |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti | [80] |
| Lucrezia Borgia | Donizetti | [73] |
| Lurline | Wallace | [508] |
| Madam Butterfly | Puccini | [270] |
| Manon Lescaut | Puccini | [247] |
| Maritana | Wallace | [495] |
| Martha | Flotow | [95] |
| Masked Ball, The (Un Ballo in Maschera) | Verdi | [370] |
| Mastersingers of Nuremberg, The (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) | Wagner | [438] |
| Merry Wives of Windsor, The | Nicolai | [229] |
| Mignon | Thomas | [307] |
| Othello | Verdi | [390] |
| Pagliacci, (The Mountebanks) | Leoncavallo | [158] |
| Parsifal | Wagner | [480] |
| Philemon and Baucis | Gounod | [115] |
| Puritani, I | Bellini | [46] |
| Robert the Devil (Robert le Diable) | Meyerbeer | [171] |
| Romeo and Juliet | Gounod | [125] |
| Rosenkavalier, Der (The Rose-Bearer) | Strauss | [289] |
| Rhinegold, The (Das Rheingold)—Part I. of "The Nibelungs' Ring" (Der Ring der Nibelungen) | Wagner | [449] |
| Rigoletto | Verdi | [337] |
| Siegfried—Part III. of "The Nibelungs' Ring" (Der Ring der Nibelungen) | Wagner | [464] |
| Sonnambula, La | Bellini | [38] |
| Star of the North, The (L'Etoile du Nord) | Meyerbeer | [192] |
| Tales of Hoffmann, The (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) | Offenbach | [238] |
| Tannhäuser | Wagner | [406] |
| Traviata, La | Verdi | [361] |
| Tristan and Isolda | Wagner | [429] |
| Trovatore, Il, or, The Gipsy's Vengeance (The Troubadour) | Verdi | [348] |
| Twilight of the Gods, The (Die Götterdämmerung)—Part IV. of "The Nibelungs' Ring" (Der Ring der Nibelungen) | Wagner | [472] |
| Valkyrie, The (Die Walküre)—Part II. of "The Nibelungs' Ring" (Der Ring der Nibelungen) | Wagner | [455] |
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