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Rabelais, François, 192

Rabelais (theatre work by Barrault and Renaud), 115

Rachel, Mlle. [Elisabeth Félix], 174

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 176

Racine, Jean, 80 , 89 , 104 , 156

Raimondi, Ruggiero, 14

"The Rake's Progress" (Hogarth), 271

The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky), 24 , 39 , 271 , 272 , 274

Raleigh, Walter, 109

Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 27

Ramey, Samuel, 137

Ramicova, Dunya, 137

The Rape of Lucretia (Britten), 55 n, 273

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), 6 , 111

Ravel, Maurice:

Boléro,24 ;

L'Enfant et les sortilèges,274 , 275 ;

L'Heure espagnole,274

Il re pastore (Mozart; text by Metastasio), 96 , 98 n

Rehm, Wolfgang, 150 n

Reimann, Aribert, 19 , 137 ;

The Ghost Sonata,27 ;

Lear, 37 , 236 , 256 , 261 -62, 263 ,264

Reinhardt, Max, 56 , 246

Reni, Guido, 111

Rennert, Günther, 124 , 236

Reszke, Jean de, 11

Das Rheingold (Wagner), 22 , 272 , 213

Rheinnixen (Offenbach), 229

Rich, Alan, 67

Richardson, Ralph, 91

Ridderbusch, Karl, 199

Riefensthal, Leni, 200

Riga (Latvia), opera in, 163

Rigoletto (Verdi), 20 , 21 , 25 , 34 , 42 , 43 , 49 , 54 , 135 , 141 , 176 , 178 , 179 , 180 , 181 , 182 , 220 , 273

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai:

Le Coq d'or,25 , 273 ;

Sadko, 25

Rinaldo (Handel), 14 , 105

Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner), 5 , 8 , 14 , 15 , 19 , 25 , 30 , 35 , 36 , 42 , 46 , 49 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 56 n, 58 , 60 , 62 n, 63 , 131 , 142 , 165 , 204 -14.

See also individual operas: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung

Rinuccini, Ottavio, 51 ;

Dafne, 79

Ritchard, Cyril, 12

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi), 56 , 142

Robert le diable (Meyerbeer), 25 , 189

Robeson, Paul, 219

Robinson, Paul, xvi , 35 -36

Rockwell, John, 264

Rodaun (Austria), 246

Rodgers, Richard, 253

Rodin, Auguste, 6

Le Roi s'amuse (Hugo), 176 , 182

Rolla, Katerma, 11

Rolland, Romain, 207

Roller, Alfred, 56 , 208 , 267 , 272

Romani, Felice, 161 , 163

Romanticism, 166 n, 173 -74, 176 , 178 , 193 , 196 , 227 , 231

"Romanticism and Opera" (Oliver), 182

Rome, 96 , 273 ;

Casino Massimi, 112 ;

opera in, 31 , 84 , 111 , 159 , 208 , 237 ;

Teatro dell'Opera, 17 , 18 , 28

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 227 , 255 n

Romeo et Juliette (Gounod), 24 , 26 , 227

Ronconi, Luca, 53 , 115

La rondine (Puccini), 24

Ronsard, Pierre de, 109

Rosen, David, 60 n

Rosenberg, Marvin, 217

Der Rosenkavalier (R. Strauss), 21 , 34 , 41 , 42 n, 45 , 49 , 65 , 72 , 183 , 238 , 245 , 246 , 247 , 248 , 249, 250

Rosenthal, Harold, 124 , 157 , 158

Le Rossignol (Stravinsky), 275

Rossini, Gioacchino, 5 , 27 , 30 , 32 , 34 , 35 , 42 , 49 , 95 , 101 , 202 , 154 , 158 , 163 , 176 , 198 , 256 ;

Armida, 269 ;

The Barber of Seville,21 ;

Cenerentola,22 ;

Le comte Ory,24 ;

L'italiana in Algeria,23 ;

Maometto II,94 ;

Semiramide, 94 , 102 , 106 ;

The Siege of Corinth,94 ;

Il signor Bruschino,23 ;

Tancredi, 94 , 102 ;

William Tell,102 , 198

Rostova, Natasha (character in War and Peace ), 3

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 2

Rubens, Peter Paul, 111

Rusalka ( Dvorák's^[*] ), 24

Rushton, Julian, 150n

Russell, Anna, 5

Russell, Ken, 53

Russia, opera in. See U.S.S.R.

Ruslan and Ludmila (Glinka), 25 , 110

Ruslan and Ludmila (Pushkin), 110

Ruy Bias (Hugo), 174 , 175 , 176