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

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

by Gustav Kobbé

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Foreword
  3. Schools of Opera
  4. Opera Before Gluck
  5. Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
  6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
  7. Ludwig van Beethoven
  8. Weber and his Operas
  9. Why Some Operas are Rarely Given
  10. From Weber to Wagner
  11. Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
  12. Introduction
  13. Das Rheingold the Rhinegold
  14. Die Walküre the Valkyr
  15. Siegfried
  16. Götterdämmerung Dusk of the Gods
  17. The Prologue
  18. Tristan Und Isolde Tristan and Isolde
  19. Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg the Mastersingers of Nuremburg
  20. Parsifal
  21. Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
  22. Vincenzo Bellini (1802-1835)
  23. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
  24. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
  25. Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
  26. French Opera
  27. Méhul to Meyerbeer
  28. Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
  29. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
  30. F. von Flotow
  31. Charles François Gounod (1818-1893)
  32. Ambroise Thomas
  33. Georges Bizet
  34. Italian Opera Since Verdi
  35. Pietro Mascagni (1863- )
  36. Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858- )
  37. Giacomo Puccini (1858- )
  38. Riccardo Zandonai
  39. Franco Leoni
  40. Italo Montemezzi
  41. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
  42. Umberto Giordano
  43. Modern Italian Opera
  44. Modern French Opera
  45. Modern German and Bohemian Opera
  46. Richard Strauss
  47. Russian Opera
  48. American Opera
  49. Spanish Opera
  50. Transcriber’s Errata List

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