Kobbé's complete opera book
By: edited and revised by the Earl of Harewood / Kobbe.
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1976
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: label: PART I. Before 1800; label: 1 OPERA BEFORE GLUCK; label: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643); title: 4
label: La Favola d'Orfeo; title: 9
label: Arianna; title: 10
label: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; title: 12
label: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria; title: 15
label: L'Incoranazione di Poppea; label: Henry Purcell (1658-1695); title: 23
label: Dido and Aeneas; title: 28
label: The Beggar's Opera; label: George Frideric Handel (1685-1759); title: 39
label: Giulio Cesare; title: 44
label: Rodelinda; title: 48
label: Alcina; title: 52
label: Semele; label: 2 CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714-1787); title: 61
label: Orfeo ed Euridice; title: 66
label: Alceste; title: 71
label: Iphigénie en Aulide; title: 75
label: Iphigénie en Tauride; label: 3 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791); title: 78
label: Idomeneo; title: 84
label: Die Entführung aus dem Serail; title: 90
label: Der Schauspieldirektor; title: 90
label: Le Nozze di Figaro; title: 102
label: Don Giovanni; title: 115
label: Così fan tutte; title: 126
label: La Clemenza di Tito; title: 129
label: Die Zauberflöte; label: PART II. The Nineteenth Century; label: 4 GERMAN OPERA; label: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827); title: 145
label: Fidelio; label: Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826); title: 152
label: Der Freischütz; title: 157
label: Euryanthe; title: 160
label: Oberon; label: Albert Lortzing (1801-1851); title: 169
label: Zar und Zimmermann; title: 171
label: Der Wildschütz; label: Otto Nicolai (1819-1849); title: 173
label: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; label: Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883); title: 176
label: Martha; label: 5 RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883); title: 185
label: Rienzi; title: 188
label: Der fliegende Holländer; title: 195
label: Tannhaüser; title: 202
label: Lohengrin; title: 216
label: Tristan und Isolde; title: 232
label: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; title: 253
label: Der Ring des Nibelungen; title: 260
label: Das Rheingold; title: 273
label: Die Walküre; title: 290
label: Siegfried; title: 301
label: Götterdämmerung; title: 316
label: Parsifal; label: 6 GERMAN OPERA CONTINUED; label: Franz von Suppé (1819-1895); title: 333
label: Boccaccio; label: Peter Cornelius (1824-1874); title: 337
label: Der Barbier von Baghdad; label: Johann Strauss (1825-1899); title: 342
label: Die Fledermaus; title: 350
label: Eine Nacht in Venedig; title: 354
label: Der Zigeunerbaron; title: 358
label: Wienerblut; label: Karl Goldmark (1830-1915); title: 362
label: Die Königen von Saba; label: Hermann Goetz (1840-1876); title: 365
label: Der Wilderspänstigen Zähmung; label: Karl Millöcker (1842-1899); title: 368
label: Der Bettelstudent; label: Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921); title: 371
label: Hänsel und Gretel; label: Hugo Wolf (1860-1903); title: 374
label: Der Corregidor; label: 7 ITALIAN OPERA; label: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801); title: 377
label: Il Matrimonio Segreto; label: Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842); title: 380
label: Médée; label: Gasparo Spontini (1774-1851); title: 385
label: La Vestale; label: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868); title: 388
label: L'Italiana in Algeri; title: 393
label: Il Turco in Italia; title: 397
label: Elisabetta, Regina di Inghilterra; title: 400
label: Il Barbiere di Siviglia; title: 410
label: La Cenerentola; title: 414
label: La Gazza Ladra; title: 419
label: Mosè in Egitto; title: 424
label: La Donna del Lago; title: 428
label: Semiramide; title: 431
label: Le Comte Ory; title: 434
label: Guillaume Tell; label: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848); title: 438
label: Anna Bolena; title: 443
label: L'Elisire d'Amore; title: 447
label: Lucrezia Borgia; title: 450
label: Maria Stuarda; title: 453
label: Lucia di Lammermoor; title: 462
label: Roberto Devereux; title: 465
label: La Fille du Régiment; title: 468
label: La Favorita; title: 474
label: Linda di Chamounix; title: 478
label: Don Pasquale; label: Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835); title: 482
label: Il Pirata; title: 485
label: La Straniera; title: 489
label: La Sonnambula; title: 494
label: Norma; title: 499
label: Beatrice di Tenda; title: 502
label: I Puritani; label: 8 GIUSEPPE VERDI (1815-1901); title: 507
label: Un Giorno di Regno; title: 512
label: Nabucco; title: 516
label: I Lombardi; title: 521
label: Ernani; title: 528
label: I due Foscari; title: 531
label: Attila; title: 534
label: Macbeth; title: 543
label: La Battaglia di Legnano; title: 546
label: Luisa Miller; title: 548
label: Rigoletto; title: 561
label: Il Trovatore; title: 570
label: La Traviata; title: 579
label: Les Vèspres Siciliennes; title: 586
label: Arnoldo; title: 590
label: Simon Boccanegra; title: 602
label: Un Ballo in Maschera; title: 609
label: La Forza del Destino; title: 617
label: Don Carlos; title: 629
label: Aida; title: 645
label: Otello; title: 653
label: Falstaff; label: 9 ITALIAN OPERA CONTINUED; label: Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886); title: 663
label: La Gioconda; label: Arrigo Boito (1842-1918); title: 671
label: Mefistofele; title: 676
label: Nerone; label: Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893); title: 680
label: La Wally; label: Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919); title: 683
label: I Pagliacci; label: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945); title: 690
label: Cavalleria Rusticana; title: 695
label: L'Amico Fritz; title: 698
label: Iris; label: Umberto Giordano (1867-1948); title: 701
label: Andrea Chénier; title: 706
label: Fedora; label: 10 FRENCH OPERA; label: François Adrien Boïeldieu (1775-1834); title: 711
label: La Dame Blanche; label: Daniel François Auber (1782-1871); title: 714
label: La Muette de Portici; title: 718
label: Fra Diavolo; label: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864); title: 723
label: Robert le Diable; title: 725
label: Les Huguenots; title: 734
label: Le Prophète; title: 741
label: Dinorah; title: 743
label: L'Africaine; label: Jacques François Halévy (1799-1862); title: 749
label: La Juive; label: Adolphe Adam (1803-1856); title: 755
label: Le Postillon de Longjumeau; label: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869); title: 757
label: Benvenuto Cellini; title: 760
label: La Damnation de Faust; title: 764
label: Les Troyens; title: 774
label: Béatrice et Bénédict; label: Ambroise Thomas (1811 1896); title: 778
label: Mignon; label: Charles François Gounod (1818-1893); title: 782
label: Faust; title: 790
label: Mireille; title: 792
label: Roméo et Juliette; label: Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880); title: 797
label: Orphée aux Enfers; title: 801
label: La Belle Hélène; title: 805
label: La Périchole; title: 809
label: Les Contes d'Hoffmann; label: Edouard Lalo (1823-1892); title: 816
label: Le Roi d'Ys; label: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921); title: 819
label: Samson et Dalila; label: Léo Delibes (1836-1891); title: 821
label: Lakmé; label: Georges Bizet (1838-1875); title: 826
label: Les Pécheurs de Perles; title: 830
label: La Jolie Fille de Perth; title: 833
label: Djamileh; title: 834
label: Carmen; label: Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894); title: 848
label: L'Étoile; title: 852
label: Le Roi malgré lui; label: Jules Massenet (1842-1912); title: 858
label: Manon; title: 864
label: Werther; title: 869
label: Thaïs; title: 873
label: Le Jongleur de Notre Dame; title: 875
label: Don  Quichotte; label: 11 RUSSIAN OPERA; label: Michael Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857); title: 877
label: A Life for the Tsar; title: 879
label: Russlan and Ludmila; label: Aleksandr Porfyrevich Borodin (1834-1887); title: 881
label: Prince Igor; label: Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky (1839-1881); title: 888
label: Boris Godounov; title: 900
label: Khovanshchina; title: 904
label: The Fair at Sorochintsy; label: Peter Ilitsch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893); title: 908
label: Yevgeny Onegin; title: 917
label: The Maid of Orleans; title: 920
label: Mazeppa; title: 926
label: The Queen of Spades; title: 932
label: Iolanta; label: Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908); title: 934
label: Ivan the Terrible (Pskovityanka); title: 937
label: Maiskaya Noch; title: 941
label: Snegurochka; title: 944
label: Sadko; title: 947
label: Le Coq d'Or; label: 12 ENGLISH OPERA; label: Michael William Balfe (1803-1870); title: 954
label: The Bohemian Girl; label: Julius Benedict (1804-1885); title: 957
label: The Lily of Killarney; label: Vincent Wallace (1814-1865); title: 959
label: Maritana; label: 13 CZECH OPERA; label: Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884); title: 963
label: The Bartered Bride (Prodaná Nevěsta); title: 969
label: Dalibor; title: 979
label: The Secret (Tajemství); title: 981
label: Libuše; label: Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904); title: 987
label: Rusalka; label: PART III: The Twentieth Century; label: 14 GERMAN OPERA; label: Eugen d'Albert (1864-1832); title: 993
label: Tiefland; label: Richard Strauss (1864-1949); title: 997
label: Salome; title: 1002
label: Elektra; title: 1008
label: Der Rosenkavalier; title: 1018
label: Ariadne auf Naxos; title: 1024
label: Die frau ohne Schatten; title: 1029
label: Intermezzo; title: 1033
label: Die Aegyptische Helena; title: 1036
label: Arabella; title: 1041
label: Die schweigsame Frau; title: 1045
label: Friedenstag; title: 1048
label: Daphne; title: 1050
label: Die Liebe der Danae; title: 1054
label: Capriccio; label: Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949); title: 1059
label: Palestrina; label: Arnold Schoenberg  (1874-1951); title: 1065
label: Erwartung; title: 1066
label: Von Heute auf Morgen; title: 1068
label: Moses und Aron; label: Alban Berg (1885-1935); title: 1073
label: Wozzeck; title: 1082
label: Lulu; label: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963); title: 1088
label: Cardillac; title: 1093
label: Mathis der Maler; label: Kurt Weill (1900-1950); title: 1100
label: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny; label: Gottfried von Einem (b.1918); title: 1108
label: Dantons Tod; label: Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1971); title: 1112
label: Die Soldaten; label: Hans Werner Henze (b.1926); title: 1121
label: Boulevard Solitude; title: 1125
label: König Hirsch (Il Re Cervo); title: 1130
label: Der Prinz von Homberg; title: 1134
label: Elegy for Young Lovers; title: 1140
label: The Bassarids; title: 1148
label: Der junge Lord; label: 15 ITALIAN OPERA; label: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924); title: 1154
label: Manon Lescaut; title: 1157
label: La Bohème; title: 1165
label: Tosca; title: 1175
label: Madama Butterfly; title: 1182
label: La Fanciulla del West; title: 1187
label: La Rondine; title: 1190
label: Il Tabarro; title: 1194
label: Suor Angelica; title: 1195
label: Gianni Schicchi; title: 1200
label: Turandot; label: Francesco Cilea (1866-1950); title: 1205
label: Adriana Lecouvreuer; label: Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924); title: 1209
label: Turandot; title: 1213
label: Arlecchino; title: 1216
label: Doktor Faust; label: Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952); title: 1223
label: La Amore dei Tre Re; label: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948); title: 1229
label: I Quattro Rusteghi; title: 1223
label: Il Segreto di Susanna; title: 1235
label: I Giojelli della Madonna; label: Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944); title: 1239
label: Francesca da Rimini; label: Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975); title: 1243
label: Il Prigioniero; label: 16 FRENCH OPERA; label: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924); label: Pénélope
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title: 1249; label: Gustave Charpentier (1850-1956); title: 1252
label: Louise; label: Claude Debussy (1862-1918); title: 1258
label: Pelléas et Mélisande; label: Paul Dukas (1865-1935); title: 1264
label: Ariane et Barbe-bleue; label: Albert Roussel (1869-1957); title: 1267
label: Pâdmavitî; label: Henri Rabaud (1875-1949); title: 1273
label: Marouf; label: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937); title: 1275
label: L'Heure Espagnole; title: 1277
label: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; label: Darius Milhaud (1892-1975); title: 1293
label: Le Pauvre Matelot; title: 1285
label: Opéras Minutes; title: 1286
label: L'Enlèvement d'Europe; title: 1287
label: L'Abandon d'Ariane; title: 1288
label: La Déliverance de Thésée; title: 1289
label: Christophe Colomb; label: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963); title: 1294
label: Les Mamelles de Tirésias; title: 1299
label: Dialogues des Carmélites; label: 17 RUSSIAN OPERA; label: Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971); title: 1308
label: Le Rossignol; title: 1311
label: L'Histoire d'un Soldat; title: 1313
label: Renard; title: 1316
label: Mavra; title: 1318
label: Oedipus Rex; title: 1322
label: The Rake's Progress; label: Sergei Sergyeevich Prokofiev (1891-1953); title: 1329
label: The Gambler; title: 1334
label: The Love for Three Oranges; title: 1340
label: The Fiery Angel; title: 1348
label: Betrothal in a Monastery; title: 1353
label: War and Peace; label: Dmitri Dmitrevich Shostakovich (1906-1975); title: 1371
label: Katerina Ismailova; label: 18 ENGLISH OPERA; label: Ethel Smyth (1858-1944); title: 1378
label: The Wreckers; title: 1381
label: The Boatswain's Mate; label: Frederick Delius (1862-1934); title: 1383
label: A Village Romeo and Juliet; label: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958); title: 1387
label: Hugh the Drover; title: 1390
label: The Poisoned Kiss; title: 1393
label: Riders to the Sea; title: 1395
label: The Pilgrim's Progress; label: Gustav Holst (1874-1934); title: 1400
label: Sāvitri; label: Rutland Boughton (1878-1960); title: 1402
label: The Immortal Hour; label: William Walton (b.1902); title: 1405
label: Troilus and Cressida; title: 1410
label: The Bear; label: Michael Tippett (b.1905); title: 1412
label: The Midsummer Marriage; title: 1423
label: King Priam; title: 1428
label: The Knot Garden; label: Benjamin Britten (b.1913); title: 1434
label: Peter Grimes; title: 1445
label: The Rape of Lucretia; title: 1452
label: Albert Herring; title: 1459
label: Let's Make an Opera!; title: 1464
label: Billy Budd; title: 1477
label: Gloriana; title: 1487
label: The Turn of the Screw; title: 1500
label: Noye's Fludde; title: 1502
label: A Midsummer Night's Dream; title: 1514
label: Parables for Church Performance; title: 1515
label: Curlew River; title: 1520
label: The Burning Fiery Furnace; title: 1523
label: The Prodigal Son; title: 1525
label: Owen Wingrave; title: 1532
label: Death in Venice; label: 19 CZECH OPERA; label: Leoš Janáček (1854-1928); title: 1542
label: Jenůfa; title: 1550
label: The Adventures of Mr Brouček; title: 1560
label: Katya Kabanova; title: 1567
label: The Cunning Little Vixen; title: 1577
label: The Makropulos Affair; title: 1584
label: From the House of the Dead; label: Jaromir Weinberger (1896-1967); title: 1590
label: Schwanda the Bagpiper; label: 20 POLISH OPERA; label: Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937); title: 1594
label: King Roger; label: Krysztof Penderecki (b.1933); title: 1598
label: The Devils of Loudun; label: 21 HUNGARIAN OPERA; label: Béla Bartók (1881-1945); title: 1607
label: Duke Bluebeard's Castle; label: Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967); title: 1609
label: Háry János; label: 22 SPANISH OPERA; label: Enrique Granados (1867-1916); title: 1616
label: Goyescas; label: Manuel de Falla (1876-1946); title: 1618
label: La Vide Breve; title: 1620
label: El Retablo de Maese Pedro; label: 23 AMERICAN OPERA; label: Virgil Thomson (b.1896); title: 1623
label: Four Saints in Three Acts; label: George Gershwin (1898-1937); title: 1626
label: Porgy and Bess; label: Gian Carlo Menotti (b.1911); title: 1634
label: Amelia al Ballo; title: 1636
label: The Medium; title: 1640
label: The Telephone; title: 1641
label: The Consul; title: 1647
label: Amahl and the Night Visitors; title: 1650
label: The Saint of Bleecker Street; label: 24 ARGENTINIAN OPERA; label: Alberto Ginastero (b.1916); title: 1634
label: Bomarzo; label: 25 DANISH OPERA; label: Carl August Nielsen (1865-1931); title: 1662
label: Saul and David; title: 1665
label: Maskarade; title: 1671
label: INDEX