FOREWORD

Through the thoughtfulness of William J. Henderson I was asked to supply material for The Complete Opera Book, which was missing at the time of Mr. Kobbé's death.

In performing my share of the work it has been my endeavor to confine myself to facts, rather than to intrude with personal opinions upon a work which should stand as a monument to Mr. Kobbé's musical knowledge and convictions.

Katharine Wright.

New York, 1919.

[Contents]

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[Schools of Opera][1]
[Opera before Gluck][4]
[Christoph Willibald Gluck], 1714-1787
[Orpheus and Eurydice]
[Armide]
[Iphigenia in Tauris]		[8]
[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart], 1756-1791
[Marriage of Figaro]
[Don Giovanni]
[Magic Flute]		[21]
[Ludwig van Beethoven], 1770-1827
[Fidelio]		[54]
[Carl Maria von Weber], 1786-1826
[Freischütz]
[Euryanthe]
[Oberon]		[63]
[Why Some Operas are rarely given][77]
[From Weber to Wagner][79]
[Richard Wagner], 1813-1883
[Rienzi]
[Flying Dutchman]
[Tannhäuser]
[Lohengrin]
[Ring of the Nibelung]
[Rheingold]—[Walküre]—[Siegfried]—[Götterdämmerung]
[Tristan and Isolde]
[Meistersinger]
[Parsifal]		[81]
[Gioachino Antonio Rossini], 1792-1868
[Barber of Seville]
[Semiramide]
[William Tell]		[293]
[Vincenzo Bellini], 1802-1835
[Sonnambula]
[Norma]
[Puritani]		[318]
[Gaetano Donizetti], 1797-1848
[Elisire d'Amore]
[Lucrezia Borgia]
[Lucia di Lammermoor]
[Daughter of the Regiment]
[Favorita]
[Linda di Chamounix]
[Don Pasquale]		[334]
[Giuseppe Verdi], 1813-1901
[Ernani]
[Rigoletto]
[Trovatore]
[Traviata]
[Ballo in Maschera]		[376]
[Before and After “Ballo in Maschera”]
[Luisa Miller]
[Sicilian Vespers]
[Force of Destiny]
[Don Carlos]
[Aïda]
[Othello]
[Falstaff]		[433]
[Arrigo Boïto], 1842-
[Mephistopheles]
[Nero]		[474]
[Amilcare Ponchielli], 1834-1886
[Gioconda]		[481]
[French Opera][493]
[Méhul to Meyerbeer][495]
[Étienne Nicholas Méhul], 1763-1817
[Joseph]		[495]
[François Adrien Boieldieu], 1775-1834
[Caliph of Bagdad]
[Jean de Paris]
[Dame Blanche]		[495]
[Daniel François Esprit Auber], 1782-1871
[Masaniello]
[Fra Diavolo]		[496]
[Louis J.F. Hérold], 1791-1833
[Zampa]		[497]
[Adolphe Charles Adam], 1802-1856
[Postillion of Longumeau]		[497]
[Jacques François Fromental Élie Halévy], 1799-1862
[Juive]		[498]
[Giacomo Meyerbeer], 1791-1864
[Robert le Diable]
[Huguenots]
[Prophet]
[L'Africaine]
[Star of the North]
[Dinorah]		[499]
[Hector Berlioz], 1803-1869
[Benvenuto Cellini]
[Beatrice and Benedict]
[Trojans]
[Damnation of Faust]		[535]
[Friedrich von Flotow], 1812-1883
[Martha]		[546]
[Charles François Gounod], 1818-1893
[Faust]
[Romeo and Juliet]		[561]
[Ambroise Thomas], 1811-1896
[Mignon]
[Hamlet]		[580]
[Georges Bizet]
[Carmen]
[Pearl Fishers]
[Djamileh]		[586]
[Italian Opera Since Verdi][607]
[Pietro Mascagni], 1863-
[Cavalleria Rusticana]
[Maschere]
[Friend Fritz]
[Iris]
[Lodoletta]
[Isabeau]		[610]
[Ruggiero Leoncavallo], 1858-
[Pagliacci]		[627]
[Giacomo Puccini], 1858-
[Villi]
[Manon Lescaut]
[Bohème]
[Tosca]
[Madam Butterfly]
[Girl of the Golden West]
[Rondine]
[Sister Angelica]
[Tabarro]
[Gianni Schicchi]		[638]
[Riccardo Zandonai]
[Francesca da Rimini]		[680]
[Franco Leoni], 1864-
[L'Oracolo]
[Rip Van Winkle]
[Raggio di Luna]
[Ib and Little Christina]		[686]
[Italo Montemezzi], 1875-
[Love of Three Kings]
[Giovanni Gallurese]
[Hélléra]		[690]
[Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari], 1876-
[Jewels of the Madonna]
[Donne Curiose]
[Secret of Suzanne]
[Doctor Cupid]		[698]
[Umberto Giordano], 1867-
[Madame Sans-Gêne]
[André Chénier]
[Fedora]
[Siberia]		[707]
[Modern Italian Opera][715]
[Luigi Mancinelli]
[Ero e Leandro]		[715]
[Riccardo Zandonai]
[Conchita]		[716]
[Alberto Franchetti]
[Cristoforo Colombo]		[717]
[Luigi and Federico Ricci]
[Crispino e la Comare]		[718]
[Alfred Catalani]
[Loreley]		[719]
[Umberto Giordano]
[Fedora]		[720]
[Alberto Franchetti]
[Germania]		[721]
[Modern French Opera][723]
[Jacques Offenbach]
[Tales of Hoffmann]		[723]
[Delibes]
[Lakmé]		[724]
[Saint-Saëns]
[Samson et Dalila]		[725]
[Lalo]
[Roi d'Ys]		[727]
[Massenet]
[Grisélidis]
[Thaïs]
[Manon]
[Le Cid]
[Don Quichotte]
[Cinderella]
[Navarraise]
[Jongleur de Nôtre Dame]
[Werther]
[Hérodiade]
[Sapho]
[Cléopâtre]		[727]
[Gustave Charpentier]
[Louise]		[750]
[Reyer]
[Salammbô]		[752]
[Debussy]
[Pelléas and Mélisande]		[752]
[Pierre Louÿs]
[Aphrodite]		[756]
[Alfred Bruneau]
[Attack on the Mill]		[758]
[Paul Dukas]
[Ariadne and Blue-Beard]		[759]
[Henri Février]
[Monna Vanna]
[Gismonda]		[761]
[Henri Rabaud]
[Marouf]		[763]
[Sylvio Lazzari]
[Grasshopper]		[764]
[Xavier Leroux]
[Queen Fiammette]
[Wayfarer]		[765]
[Raoul Gunsbourg]
[Old Eagle]		[767]
[Modern German and Bohemian Opera]
[St. Elizabeth]		[769]
[Peter Cornelius]
[Barber of Bagdad]		[770]
[Herman Goetz]
[Taming of the Shrew]		[772]
[Karl Goldmark]
[Queen of Sheba]
[Cricket on the Hearth]		[773]
[Engelbert Humperdinck]
[Königskinder]
[Hänsel and Gretel]		[776]
[Brüll]
[Golden Cross]		[779]
[Blech]
[Sealed In]		[781]
[Viktor E. Nessler]
[Trumpeter of Säkkingen]		[784]
[Wilhelm Kienzl]
[Evangelist]
[Kuhreigen]		[787]
[Ludwig Thuille]
[Lobetanz]		[791]
[Hugo Wolf]
[Magistrate]		[792]
[Richard Strauss], 1864-
[Fire Famine]
[Guntram]
[Salome]
[Elektra]
[Rosenkavalier]
[Ariadne on Naxos]		[796]
[Friedrich Smetana]
[Bartered Bride]		[815]
[Russian Opera][818]
[Michael Ivanovich Glinka]
[Russlan and Ludmilla]		[818]
[Borodin]
[Prince Igor]		[819]
[Moussorgsky]
[Boris Godounoff]		[822]
[Peter Ilitsch Tschaikowsky]
[Eugen Onegin]
[Pique-Dame]		[825]
[Rimsky-Korsakoff]
[Coq d'Or]		[828]
[Ignace Jan Paderewski]
[Manru]		[830]
[American Opera][832]
[Frederick Shepherd Converse]
[Sacrifice]
[Pipe of Desire]		[832]
[Charles Wakefield Cadman]
[Shanewis]		[834]
[John Adams Hugo]
[Temple Dancer]		[834]
[Joseph Breil]
[Legend]		[836]
[Victor Herbert]
[Natomah]		[837]
[Horatio Parker]
[Mona]		[840]
[Walter Damrosch]
[Cyrano]		[841]
[Reginald de Koven]
[Canterbury Pilgrims]		[843]
[Spanish Opera][849]
[Enrique Granados, 1867-1916]
[Goyescas]		[849]
[Index][851]