German opera libretti
By: edited by James Steakley ; foreword by Jost Hermand.
Contributors: Steakley, James D.
Series: The German library ;; v. 52
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Operas -- Librettos
Notes: Translated into English.
Table of contents: title: The magic flute / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder ; translated by Michael Geliot (lyrics) and Anthony Besch (dialogue) ; adapted by the editor; title: Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven ; libretto from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly by Joseph Sonnleithner, Stephan von Breuning, and Georg Friedrich Treitschke ; translated by Paul Csonka and Ariane Theslöf (lyrics) and James Steakley (dialogue); title: Parsifal / Richard Wagner ; translated by Andrew Porter; title: The rose cavalier / Richard Strauss ; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal ; translated by Alfred Kalisch ; adapted by the editor; title: Moses and Aron / Arnold Schönberg ; translated by Allen Forte with revisions by Paul Hamburger ; adapted by the editor.