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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovitch), 8 n, 24 , 27 , 72 , 183
La Fontaine, Jean de, 109
Lagache, Daniel, 222
La Jolla (Calif.) Playhouse, 132 , 133
Laisse couler mes larmes (Seydoux), 34 n
Lalo, Edouard, 176
Lancaster, Osbert, 66
The Land of Smiles [Das Land des Lächelns ] (Lehár), 23
Landon, H. C. Robbins, 128 n
Large, David C., 205
Lassos, Orlando di, 113
Latin America, opera in, 53
Laughton, Charles, 219
Laurens, Henri, 265
Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo, 163
Lazaridis, Stefanos, 126
Lear (Reimann), 19 , 37 ,72 , 236 , 256 , 261 -62, 263
Leeds (England): Opera North, 16
Leger, Fernand, 276
Lehár, Franz, 229 ;
The Land of Smiles,23 ;
The Merry Widow,21 ;
Der Zarewitsch,24
Lehmann, Lilli, 156 -57, 158 , 159 , 206
Lehnhoff, Nikolaus, 53
Leider, Frieda, 207
Leipzig (Germany):
Leipzig Opera, 205;
Leningrad. See St. Petersburg
Leo, Leonardo, 70 , 96 , 99 , 103
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero: I pagliacci,22
Leos[ *] Janácek[*] : Kát'a Kabanová (Tyrrell), 240 n
Lerner, Alan Jay: My Fair Lady,23
Lessing, Gotthold, 197
Lewis, C. S., 119
Lexicon of Musical Invective (Slonimsky), 5 n
Liberec[*] (Czechoslovakia), 237
Liebner, James, 150 n
Liège (Belgium), opera in, 18
The Lighthouse (Maxwell Davies), 134
Limon, José, 152
Lindenberger, Herbert, 26 , 33 , 40 , 43 , 75
Lippmann, Friedrich, 166 n
Literature into Opera (Schmidgall), 33
Lobel, Adrianne, 137
Loeb Theatre. See Harvard University
Loewenberg, Alfred, 95
London, 239 ;
Covent Garden Theatre, 11 ;
English National Opera [formerly Sadler's Wells Opera], 17 , 27 , 53 , 237 ;
Handel Opera Society, 101 -2;
National Theatre, 64 ;
opera in, 2 , 10 -12, 19 , 35 , 59 , 84 , 90 n, 95 , 158 , 207 , 236 , 243 , 244 , 252 ;
Royal Opera at Covent Garden, 6 , 15 , 17 , 19 , 28 , 31 , 57 , 64 , 237 , 240 , 242 , 243 , 257 , 268 ;
Sadler's Wells Opera, 237 , 239 , 240 , 242 n, 243
Long Beach (Calif.), opera in, 142
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 196
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), 110
Lorenz, Max, 207
Lorenzetti, Pietro, 70
Lortzing, Albert: Zar und Zimmermann,22
Los Angeles, 133 ;
Los Angeles Festival, 133 ;
Los Angeles Music Center Opera, 18 , 30 , 275 ;
UCLA Opera Workshop, 237 , 240 , 271
Losey, Joseph, 124 , 125 , 126 , 127
Louis XII, king of France, 107
Louis XIV, king of France, 109
Louise (Charpentier), 8 n, 42 n, 48 , 192 , 271
The Love for Three Kings (Montemezzi), 25
The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev), 24 , 25 , 274
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), 6 , 20 , 21 , 25 , 42 n, 76 , 258
Lucio Silla (J. C. Bach), 103
Lucio Silla (Mozart; text by Gamerra and Metastasio), 96 , 98 n
Lucrèce Borgia (Hugo), 174 , 177
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), 49 , 177 , 178 , 180 , 181 , 182
Ludwigsburg (Germany), opera in, 31
Luisa Miller (Verdi), 24
Lully, Jean Baptist, 80 , 84 , 109 ;
Lulu (Berg), 8n, 27 , 60 , 141 , 270
Lulu (Wedekind), 131
Os Lusíadas [The Lusiads ] (Camões), 109
Lussan, Zélie de, 11
Luther, Martin, 194
Lyons (France), opera in, 18