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Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Generally, opera composers' names are indexed only when they are specifically referred to m the text, and the names of characters and settings are not cited apart from the operas in which they occur. Institutions (but not periodicals) are indexed under the cities m which they are located.

A

Aachen (Germany), opera in, 238

Aarhus (Netherlands), opera in, 213

Abate, Nicolò deli', 111

The Abduction from the Seraglio [Die Entführung aus dem Serail ] (Mozart), 21 , 26 , 269

Abert, Hermann, 150 n

Académic Française, 174

Ackroyd, Dan, 141

Adam, Theo, 18

Adams, John, 136 ;

The Death of Klinghoffer,134 ;

Nixon in China,19 , 134 , 157

Addison, Joseph, 2

Adler, Kurt Herbert, 64 , 219

Adorno, Theodor, 6 , 212

Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea), 19 , 22

Die äegyptische Helena (R. Strauss), 246

Aeschylus, 80 , 81

Affron, Charles, 181

L'Africaine (Meyerbeer), 25 , 27

Aida (Verdi), xvii , 7 , 13 , 19 , 21 , 25 , 26 , 30 , 42 , 55 n, 78 , 102 , 141 , 161 , 259

Aix-en-Provence (France) Festival, 269 -70

Ajax (Sophocles), 133

Ala (Italy), 246

Alain [Émile Chartier], 55 n

Albani, Francesco, 111

Albéniz, Isaac, 239

Alberich (character in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ), 46

Albert Herring (Britten), 23 , 273

Alceste (Gluck), xiv , 81 , 82 -84

Alceste (Lully), 80

Alcestis (Euripides), 81 , 82 -83

Alicina (Handel), 112 , 116

Aldeburgh (England), 274 ;

Festival, 256 -57, 269

Alden, David, 53

Alessandro in India (text by Metastasio), 95 , 97

Alexandria (Egypt), 193

Algarotti, Francesco, 57

Allio, René, 267

Amadis de Gaule (J. C. Bach), 103

American National Theatre. See Washington, D.C.

American Repertory Theatre. See Cambridge, Mass.

American Theatre (New York), 143

Amparan, Belan, 259

Amsterdam, opera m, 19 , 103 , 134 , 246

Anabaptists, 184 , 185

Analecta musicologica (Vienna), 166 n

Anatevka . See Fiddler on the Roof

Andersen, Hans Christian, 227 , 274

Anderson, Laurie, 136

Andrea Chenier (Giordano), 22 , 42 n,48

Angeles, Victoria de Los, 221

Angelo, Tyran de Padoue (Hugo), 174 , 177 , 182

Anna Bolena (Donizetti), 42n, 44


286

Annals of Opera (Loewenberg), 95

Anouilh, Jean, 81

Anthony, Susan B., 271

Antigone (Sophocles), 87

Antigone (Traetta), 103

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 138

Antony and Cleopatra (Barber), 255 , 256 , 259 -61

Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 131 , 260 -61

Appia, Adolphe, 209 , 266

Apoilinaire, Gudlaume, 253 , 275

Arabella (R. Strauss), 23 , 49 , 65 , 245 , 247 , 250

Ardoin, John, 157

Argentina, opera in, 237

Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss), 21 , 26 , 49 , 246 , 247 , 248 , 250 , 252 , 253

Ariodante (Handel), 112 , 116

Ariosto, Ludovico, 69 , 107 -19

Aristotle, 95

Armida (Haydn), 134 , 135

Armida (Rossini), 269

Amc, Thomas Alexander, 96

Arnold, Matthew, 176

Arrabal, Francisco, 175

Artaserse (text by Metastasio), 95

Artaud, Antonin, 59

As You Like It (Shakespeare), 109

Attilio regolo (Hasse), 103

Auber, Daniel: Fra Diavolo,24

Auden, W. H., 219 n, 253 , 271

Australia, opera in, 237

Austria, opera in, 213

B

Bach, Johann Christian, 96 ;

Amadis de Gaule,103 ;

Lucio Silla,103 ;

Temistocle,103

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 82 , 134 , 228 , 242

Baden-Baden (Germany), opera in, 208

Baedeker guides, 193 , 196

Baglioni, Antonio, 121

Baker, Janet, 104

Bakst, Leon, 265

Balanchine, George, 136 , 265

Balfe, Michael William, 25 , 255 n

Ballets Russes, 265

Un ballo in maschera (Verdi), 11 , 21 , 269

Balthus [Balthasar Klossowski de Rola], 269

Barber, Samuel: Antony and Cleopatra,255 , 256 , 259 -61

The Barber of Seville [Il barbiere di Siviglia ] (Rossini), 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 269 , 273

Barbier, Jules, 227 , 233 , 234

Barbien, Fedora, 163

Barcelona, opera in, 159 , 213

Bardi, Giovanni de, 112

Barenboim, Daniel, 58 , 213

Barish, Jonas, 33

Baroque opera, 40 , 51 , 56 , 96 , 244

Barrault, Jean-Louis [and Madeleine Renaud], 115 , 270

The Bartered Bride (Smetana), 22

Bartók, Bela, 26 ;

Bluebeard's Castle,23 , 60

Basel (Switzerland), opera in, 209

Ba-ta-Clan (Offenbach), 228

Baudelaire, Charles, 63 , 227

Bavarian State Opera. See Munich

Bayreuth:

Germany Bayreuth Festival Opera, 18 , 19 , 53 , 56 n, 57 , 58 , 62 n, 63 , 65 , 196 , 200 , 205 , 206 , 207 , 208 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 212 -13, 267 ;

Margrave's Theatre, 266 ;

Wahnfried (Wagner family house), 205

BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation], opera on, 239

Beardsley, Aubrey, 50

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, 138 , 146

Beckett, Samuel, 130 , 132 , 175

The Bedbug (Mayakovsky), 131

Beecham, Thomas, 59

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 6 , 10228 , 242 ;

Fidelio, 21 , 28 , 224

Béjart, Maurice, 55 n, 124 , 126

Bel canto (style of opera and singing), 35 , 40 , 42 n, 49 , 51 , 68 , 80 , 157 , 158 , 162 , 163 , 167 , 244 , 255 , 258

The Beginning of a Novel ( Janácek[*] ), 236

Bellay, Joachim du, 109

La belle Hélène (Offenbach), 23 , 229 , 231

Bellini, Giovanni, 111

Bellini, Vincenzo, 27 , 33 , 34 , 34n,35 , 42 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 160 , 162 , 163 , 165 -66, 166 n, 167 , 169 , 176 , 256 , 276 ;

Norma, 23 , 56 , 156 -71, 160;

I puritani,269 ;

La sonnambula,24

Benois, Alexandre, 267 , 273

Benois, Nicola, 267

Bentley, Eric, 12 -13, 39 , 43 , 176 , 181

Bérard, Christian, 273

Berchem, Jaquet de, 113

Berg, Alban, 26 , 39 , 44 , 45 , 61 , 236 , 242 , 262 , 276 ;

Lulu,60 , 270 ;

Wozzeck, 22 , 270

Berganza, Teresa, 126

Berghaus, Ruth, 53

Bergman, Ingmar, 267

Berkeley, Busby, 132

Berkeley (Calif.), opera in, 132

Berlin [East and West], 227 , 266 ;

Komische Oper, 17 , 136 , 218 , 240 , 267 ;

Krolloper, 267 ;

opera m, 12 , 16 , 18 , 19 , 31 , 53 , 207 , 208 , 209 , 212 , 236 , 244 , 257 , 266 ;

Royal Opera, 207 ;

State Opera (Berliner Staatsoper), 89 , 103 ;

University of, 196


287

Berhoz, Hector, 2 , 126 n, 159 , 176 , 244 , 255 n;

La Damnation de Faust,189 ;

Les Troyens,35 -36

Berman, Eugene, 266 , 273

Bernhardt, Sarah, 174 , 177 , 180

Bernstein, Leonard:

West Side Story,23

Der Bettelstudent (Millöcker), 24

Bibiena, Galli da (family of designers), 266 ;

Carlo, 266 ;

Giuseppe, 266

The Bible, 69 , 111 , 183

Billington, Michael, 64

Billy Budd (Britten), 167 , 273

Bing, Rudolf, 12 , 65 , 259

Bismarck, Otto von, 231

Bitter, Christof, 150 n

Bizet, Georges, 33 , 57 , 176 , 268 ;

Carmen, 21 , 61 , 190 , 191 -92;

The Pearl Fishers,23

The Black Mask (Penderecki), 27

Bleuler, E. P., 222

Bloch, Ernest, 255 n

Bluebeard's Castle [also known as Duke Bluebeard's Castle ] (Bartók), 23 , 53 , 60

Bobigny (France): Maison de Culture, 134

Bock, Jerry: Fiddler on the Roof,24

La Bohème (Puccini), 14 , 19 , 21 , 25 , 42 n, 49 , 102

The Bohemian Girl (Balfe), 25

Böhm, Karl, 28 , 58 , 127

Boito, Arrigo, 36 , 45 , 216 , 217 , 218 , 219 , 245 , 253 ;

Mefistofele,23 , 45

Bologna (Italy), 111 , 266 ;

opera in, 18 , 213

Bolzano [Bozen] (Italy), 248

Bondarchuk, Sergei, 219

Bononcini, Giovanni, 103

Borges, Jorge Luis, 110

Borgkh, Inge, 42 n

Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky), 22 , 25 , 45 , 184

Boris Godunov (Pushkin), 131

Borodin, Alexander: Prince Igor,24

Boston, 136 ;

Boston Opera Company, 136 ;

Boston Shakespeare Company, 132 , 133 , 134 ;

Emmanuel Church, 136 ;

opera in, 133 , 159

Boston Globe,259

Boublil, Alain, 177

Boucher, François, 111

Boulez, Pierre, 1 , 58 , 62 n, 212

Bowman, James, 259

Braccioli, Grazio, 115 , 116

Brannigan, Owen, 257

Brecht, Bertolt, 55 , 130 , 132 , 134 , 143 , 175 , 253 , 267

Bremen (Germany), 200

Brett, Phillip, xvi

Breucr, Lee, 136

Britten, Benjamin, 26 , 32 , 49 , 236 , 244 , 264 , 272 -74;

Albert Herring,23 , 273 ;

Billy Budd,167 , 273 ;

Death in Venice,273 , 274 ;

Gloriana, 273 ;

A Midsummer Night's Dream,24 , 255 n, 256 -59, 260 , 273 ;

Owen Wingrave,273 ;

Peter Grimes,23 , 244 ;

The Rape of Lucretia,273 ;

The Turn of the Screw,23 , 273 , 274

Brno (Czechoslovakia), 235 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 242 ;

Brno Theatre, 235 ;

Janácek[*] Theatre, 236 ;

opera in, 236

Brockett, Oscar G., 131 n

Brod, Max, 236

Brook. Peter, 53 , 57 , 131 n, 136 , 257 , 261 , 268

Brooklyn, N.Y., opera in (inc. Brooklyn Academy of Music), 133 , 134

Brouwenstijn, Gré, 240

Bruckner, Anton, 35

Brückner brothers (set designers), 205

Brunel, Pierre, 161 , 162 , 165 , 170

Brünnhilde (character in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ), 33 , 49 , 157 -58, 171

Brussels, opera in (inc. Théâtre Royale de la Monnaie), 134 , 213 , 274

Brustein, Robert, 132

Buenos Aires (Argentina), opera in, 213

Buffet, Bernard, 266 , 268

Bumbry, Grace, 164

Il burbero de buon cuore (Martin y Soler), 149 n

Les Burgraves (Hugo), 174

Burney, Charles, 99

Busch, Fritz, 51

Bush, George, 143

Busoni, Ferruccio, 228

Byrd, William, 113

Byron, Lord (George Gordon, 6th Baron), 110

C

Caballé, Montserrat, 18 , 106 , 153 , 181

Cacoyannis, Michael, 81

Cairo, opera in, xvii , 18 , 31

Caldara, Antonio, 70 , 95 , 96

Callas, Maria, 35 , 42 n, 44 n, 64 , 76 , 77 , 84 , 156 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 160,161 , 163 , 164 , 166 , 167 , 168 n, 169 , 170 , 244 , 269

The Callas Legacy (Ardoin), 157

Calvé, Emma, 11

Calvino, Italo, 110 , 119

Calzabigi, Raniero de', 82 -83, 85

Cambridge (Mass.): American Repertory Theatre, 132 , 134

Camerata. See Florence

Camões, Luis de, 109

Canaday, John, 268

Le Canard enchainé (Paris), 192


288

Cape Canaveral (Florida), 135

Capriccio (Strauss), 252

Cardiff(Wales), opera in, 142 , 213 , 237 ;

Welsh National Opera, 16 , 237 , 257

Carlyle, Joan, 257

Carlyle, Thomas, 227

Carmen (Bizet). 8n, 11 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 25 , 34 , 45 , 49 , 55 n, 61 , 64 , 102 , 141 , 187 , 190 , 191 -92, 243 , 268

Carmen (Mérimée), 61

Carner, Mosco, 68

Carré, Michel, 227 , 233 , 234

Carreras, José, 18

Caruso, Enrico, 76

Casarès, Maria, 91

Cassidy, Claudia, 242

Casti, Giovanni Battista de, 252

Castiglione, Baldassare, 118

The Castle of Crossed Destinies [Il castello dei destini incrociati ] (Calvino), 110

Castle Hill Festival. See Ipswich, Mass.

Castrati, 31 , 51 , 101 , 103 , 167

Catone in Utica (text by Metastasio), 97

Catone in Utica (opera by Handel after Leo, including music by Hasse, Porpora, Vivaldi, and Vinci), 99

Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni), 10 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 184

Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 34 , 244 ;

Ormindo, 27

Cenerentola (Rossini), 22 , 26

Cervantes, Miguel de, 107 , 108 , 109

Cervena, Sona, 236

Chabrier, Emmanuel, 176

Chagall, Marc, 266 , 268 , 270 , 276

Chaliapin, Feodor, 167

Chamberlain, Eva Wagner, 200

Chamberlain, H. S., 200

Chanel, Coco, 265

Charlemagne, Emperor, 201

Charles VI, Emperor, 95

Charleston (S.C.): Spoleto Festival, 103 , 259

Charpentier, Gustave, 271

Chateaubriand, François-René, Vicomte de, 173

Chekhov, Anton, 131 , 132 , 133

Chéreau, Patrice, 53 , 58 , 62 n, 72 , 212 -13, 225 -27

Cherubin (Massenet), 27

Cherubini, Luigi, 96 , 103 ;

Medée,24 , 84 -86, 86 n, 163

Chesterfield, Lord (Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of), 2

Chicago:

Lyric Opera of Chicago, 17 -18, 134 , 135 , 136 , 237 ;

opera m (usually implies Lyric Opera), 17 , 53 , 65 , 158 , 240

Chicago Tribune,242

Chichester (England): National Theatre, 65

Chopin, Frederic, 131

A Christmas Carol (Dickens), 128

Le Cid (Massenet), 25

Cilea, Francesco: Adriana Lecouvreur,22

Cimarosa, Domenico, 96 , 101 , 103 ;

Il maltrimonio segreto,24

Cinthio, Geraldo, 215

Claudel, Paul, 253

Clay, Gen. Lucius, 202

Clément, Catherine, 34 n, 167 , 168 , 168 -69n, 169 -70

Clément, Félix, 190

La clemenza di Tito (text by Metastasio), 95 , 97

La dentenza di Tito (Mozart). 22 , 25 , 26 , 94 , 95 , 99 , 102 , 129

The Cloven Viscount [Il visconte dimezzato ] (Calvino). 110

Coburg (Germany), 205

Cocteau, Jean, 81 , 91 , 130 , 253 , 265 , 275 , 276

Colette [Sidome Gabrielle Claudine Colette], 175 , 253 , 275

Cologne, 228 ;

opera in (inc. Oper der Stadt Köln), 18

Combes, Emile, 192

Comédie-Française. See Paris

Le comte Ory (Rossini), 19 , 24

Cone, Edward, 39

Conklin, John, 267

Conrad, Peter, 27 , 74 , 76

Constance [Konstanz] (Germany), Council of, 184

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Barbier and Carré), 227 , 234

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offen-bach). See The Tales of Hoffmann

Le convenienze ed inconvenienza teatrali [Viva la mamnla ] (Donizetti), 24

Copeau, Jacques, 60 n

Copley, John, 124 , 126 , 127 , 257

Coppélia (Delibes), 228

Le Coq d' or [The Golden Cockerel ] (Rimsky-Korsakov), 25 , 270 , 273

Corelli, Franco, 163

Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 130 , 264

Corneille, Pierre, 80

Corsaro, Frank, 274

Corse, Sandra, 155 , 220

Corsi, Jacopo, 79

Così fan tutte (Mozart). xiii , 20 , 21 , 25 , 26 , 39 , 44 -45, 58 , 101 , 122 , 134 , 137 , 140 -41, 143 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 149 , 152 , 154 , 269 , 273

Cossotto, Fiorenza, 163

Costa, Mary, 257

Cotrubas, Ileana, 257

The Count of Monte Cristo (J. O'Neill, after Dumas ), 133 , 176


289

Coutaud, Lucien, 270

Covent Garden. See London.

Coventry (England) Cathedral, 274

Cox, John, 53 n, 275

Crespin, Régine, 229

Cromwell (Hugo), 173 , 175

Crosten, William L., 185

The Cry of Clytaemnestra (Eaton), 264

Crystal Cathedral. See Garden Grove, Calif.

The Cunning Little Vixen ( Janácek[*] ), 24 , 46 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 240 , 242 , 270 , 274

Cunningham, Merce, 266 , 272

Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 176

Czechoslovakia, opera in, 19 , 235 , 236 , 238

D

Dafne (Rinuccini), 79

Dahlhaus, Carl, 86 n

Dalí, Salvador, 266 , 268

Dallas (Texas), opera in, 84 , 213

La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz), 189

Dana, F. M., 75

Les Danaïdes (Saileri), 103

Dance, modern, 266

D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 252 , 265

Dante (Alighieri), 6 , 110

Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 36 , 45 , 46 , 53 , 57 , 63 , 64 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 129 , 130 , 137 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 149 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 245 , 248 -49, 253

Daughter of the Regiment [La Fille du regiment ] (Donizetti), 22

Davidson, J. W., 206

Dams, Colin, 126

Dams, Michael Reese, 226

Dean, Winton, 43 , 95 , 101 -2, 255 n

Death in Venice (Britten), 36 , 72 , 273

The Death of Klinghoffer (Adams), 57 , 134

Debussy, Claude, 39 , 40 , 253 , 265 ;

Pélleas et Mélisande,23

De Chirico, Giorgio, 266 , 269 , 270 , 276

Delacroix, Eugène, 112

Deller, Alfred, 257

Del Mar, Norman, 253

Del Monaco, Mario, 35 , 163

Delibes, Léo, 176 , 228 ;

Lakmé,25

DeMille, Cecil B., 7 , 259

Dent, E.J., 102 , 122 -23

Derain, André, 265 , 266 , 269

Des Esseintes, Jean (character in J. K. Huysmans, A Rebours ), 72

Deutsche Oper am Rhein. See Düsseldorf

Dewhurst, Colleen, 133

Dexter, John, 14

Les Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc), 23 , 192

Diaghilev, Sergei, 265 , 272 , 276

Déaz, Justino, 259

Dickens, Charles, 11

Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), 24 , 42

Didone abbandonata (text by Metastasio), 95

D'Indy, Vincent, 176

Dinorah (Meyerbeer), 25 , 36

Domenichino [Domenico Zampieril], 111

Domingo, Placido, 18 , 68 , 181 , 225 , 226

Donahue, Phil, 141

Don Carlos (Verdi), xvii , 13 , 22 , 71

Don Giovanni (Mozart), xiii , xiv , 10 -11, 20 , 21 , 25 , 30 , 39 , 44 -45, 62 , 65 , 120 -29, 123 , 129 n, 133 , 134 , 138 -40, 143 , 144 , 145 , 147 , 150 , 150 n, 152 , 153 -54, 155 , 187 , 225 , 234 , 269 , 273

Le Don Giovanni de Mozart (Hocquard), 150 n

Don Juan (Byron), 110

Don Pasquale (Donizetti), 22 , 141

Don Quixote (Cervantes), 107 , 108 , 109

Donizetti, Gaetano, 27 , 34 , 35 , 42 , 49 , 157 , 158 , 163 ;

Anna Bolena,42 n, 44 ;

Daughter of the Regiment,22 ;

Don Pasquale,22 ;

L'elisir d'amore,21 ;

Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo,112 ;

Lucia di Lammermoor,6 , 21 ;

Lucrezia Borgia,177 , 180 , 182 ;

Viva la mamma,24

Donzelli, Domenico, 163

Dortmund (Germany), opera in, 208

Dossi, Battista [Battista di Niccolò di Luteri], 111

Dossi, Dosso [Giovanni di Niccolò di Luteri], 111

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 227

Dresden, 19 , 202 ;

opera in, 18 , 208 , 247

Drouet, Juliette, 174

Dryden, John, 80

Dudley, William, 213

Dufrenne, Mikel, 55 n

Duisberg (Germany), Deutsche Oper am Rhem [shared with Düsseldorf], 30 , 237 ;

opera in, 18 , 208

Dulberg, Edward, 267

Dumas, Alexandre, fils,56 n

Dumas, Alexandre, père,133 , 178 , 198

Dürer, Albrecht, 193 , 194 , 195 , 196 , 200 , 201

Düsseldorf (Germany); Deutsche Oper am Rhein [shared with Duisberg], 30 , 237 ;

opera m, 18 , 208 , 236 , 237 , 243


290

Dux, Paul, 175

Dvorák's[*] , Antonín, 24 , 239

Dyer, Richard, 259

The Dyer's Hand (Auden), 219 n

E

Eastern Europe, opera in, 17 , 28 , 30

Eaton, John:

The Cry of Clytaemnestra,264 ;

The Tempest,262 -63

Eberst, Isaac, 228

Ebert, Peter, 124 n

Edinburgh Festival, 134 , 236 , 240

Einstein, Alfred, 150n

Electra (Sophocles), 81 , 86 -90

Electrification of the Soviet Union (Osborne), 134

Elektra (R. Strauss), 22 , 48 , 62 , 81 , 86 -90, 89 , 90 n, 141 , 243 , 245 , 247 , 270

Elias, Rosalind, 259

Eliot, T. S., 39 , 61 , 127 -28

L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti), 21 , 49

Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 274

Ellis-Fermor, Una, 39

Ellsworth, Ray, 239

Emmanuel Church. See Boston

The Empty Space (Brook), 131 n

L'Enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), 270 , 274 , 275

England. See Great Britain

Die Entführung aus dem Serail . See The Abduction from the Seraglio

English National Opera. See London

Enlightenment, 128 , 195

Epidaurus (Greece) Festival, 84 , 164

Erasmus, Desiderius, 118

Ernani (Verdi), 14 , 172 , 176 , 177 , 178 , 180 , 182

Erwartung (Schoenberg), 53 , 260 , 270

Essen (Germany), opera inl, 31

Este family (rulers of Ferrara and Modena, 13th-16th C.), 112 ,

Alfonso I D'Este, duke of Ferrara, 108 , 111 ;

Alfonso II D'Este, Duke of Ferrara, 113 ;

Francesco I D'Este, duke of Ferrara, 111 ;

Cardinal Ippolito I D'Este, 107 , 113 ;

Cardinal Ippolito II D'Este, 110 ;

Isabella D'Este Gonzaga, marchesa of Mantua, 113

Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky), 21 , 26

Eugénie, Empress of France, 230

Euridice (Peri), 79

Euripides, 80 , 81 -82, 83 -86, 86 n

Euryanthe (Weber), 25

Evans, Geraint, 257 , 258

Everding, August, 124

The Excursions of Mr.  Broucek[*] ( Janácek[*] ), 236 , 243

Expressionism, German, 208 , 269

F

Façade (Walton/Sitwell), 130

The Faerie Queene (Spenser), 109

Falstaff (Verdi), 21 , 26 , 34 , 256

Fantasiestücke (Schumann), 228

Farinelli [Carlo Broschi], 101

Fasolt (character in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ), 46

Fauré, Gabriel, 176

Faust (Goethe), 198 , 227

Faust (Gounod), 20 , 21 , 25 , 26 , 34 , 49 , 55 n, 189 -90, 198 , 227

Fellini, Federico, 126

Felsenstein, Walter, 12 , 53 , 55 , 55 n, 64 , 124 , 136 , 153 , 212 , 218 , 225 , 236 , 240 , 257 , 258 , 276

Felty, Janice, 146

Fergusson, Francis, 39

Ferrara (Italy), 107 , 110 , 111 , 112

Ferry, Jules, 192

Fetonte (Jommelli), 103

Fiddler on the Roof (Bock), 17 , 24

Fidelio (Beethoven), 18 , 21 , 26 , 28 , 46 , 183 , 224

The Fiery Angel (Prokofiev), 24 , 27 , 72

Financial Times (London), 13

Finland, opera in, 19

La finta giardiniera (Mozart), 23 , 26

Firkusny, Rudolf, 236

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 128

Flagello, Ezio, 259

Flagstad, Kirsten, 76 , 207

Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss Jr.), 14 , 20 , 21

Florence (Italy), 79 , 91 , 129 n, 194 , 269 ;

Camerata, 79 , 80 , 81 , 91 , 96 ;

May Festival [Maggio Musicale Fiorentino], 269 ;

opera in, 84 , 103 , 157 , 213 , 236 ;

Teatro Comunale, 53

Florimo, Francesco, 163

The Flying Dutchnian [Der fliegende Hollander ] (Wagner), 20 , 21

Fokine, Michel, 265

Foreman, Richard, 136

Forster, E. M., 253

La forza del destino (Verdi), 14 , 22 , 26 , 60 , 141 , 273

Foucault, Michel, 212

Fox, Carol, 65

Fox, Charles James, 108

Fra Diavolo (Auber), 24

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 111 , 119

France, opera m, 19 , 53 , 183 -92, 237

La Franciade (Ronsard), 109

Franck, César, 33 , 176

Franco-Prussian War, 231 , 232

Frankenstein, Alfred, 272


291

Frankfurt, 195 ;

opera in, 31 , 55 n, 208

Die Frau ohne Schatten (R. Strauss), 23 , 42 n, 46 , 58 , 104 , 246 , 247 , 250 , 252

Freeman, David, 185

Freiburg (Germany), opera in, 208

French Grand Opera: An Art and a Business (Crosten), 185

French Revolution, 1 , 101

Der Freischütz (Weber), 22 , 26

Freni, Mirella, 18

Freud, Siegmund, 220 , 222

Friedrich, Götz, 53 , 124 , 126 , 236 , 242

From the House of the Dead ( Janácek[*] ), 236 , 237 , 238 , 240 , 243

Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (Donizetti), 112

Fürtwangler, Wilhelm, 51 , 269

G

Gabrieli, Andrea, 113

Gale, George, 6 -7, 7 n

Gall, Jeffrey, 104 , 117

Galuppi, Baldassare, 96 , 102

Gamerra, Giovanni de, 96

Gara, Eugenio, 157 , 167

Garden, Mary, 167

Garden Grove (Calif.): Crystal Cathedral, 135

Garmisch (Germany), 247

Garnier, Charles, 228

Garrick, David, 167

Gasparini, Francesco, 103

Gatti-Casazza, Giulio, 159

Gautier, Théophile, 173 , 227

Gazzaniga, Giuseppe, 124

Gelatt, Roland, 259 , 261

Geneva, opera in, 18 , 126 , 213

Genoa, opera in (inc. Teatro Comunale), 31

"German Art and German Politics" (Wagner), 197

Germany, opera in, 19 , 20 , 30 , 35 , 53 , 55 , 65 , 142 , 207 , 213 , 237 , 238 , 267

Gershwin, George, 132 ;

Porgy and Bess,24

Gerusalemme liberata (Tasso), 108

Gesamtkunstwerk,55 , 265 , 276

The Ghost Sonata [Gespensternsonate ] (Reimann), 27

Giamatti, A. Bartlett, 118 -19

Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), 23

Gide, André, 81 , 187

Gielgud, John, 257

Gilbert, W. S. and Sullivan, Arthur, 24 , 25 , 131 , 134 , 178 , 224 , 229 , 253 ;

The Gondoliers,131 ;

The Mikado, 23 , 134 , 135

La Gioconda (Ponchielli), 23 , 25 , 26 , 68 , 174 , 177 , 178 , 180 , 181 , 182

Giordano, Umberto, 22 ;

Andrea Chenier,22 , 42 n,48

Giotto [Giotto di Bordone], 274

Giraudoux, Jean, 81 , 128

Giulini, Carlo Maria, 127

Giulio Cesare (Handel), 14 , 23 , 98 , 102 , 131 , 134 , 135 , 136

I giuramento (Mercadante), 177

Giustino (Handel), 27 , 106

Glasgow, opera in, 237 ;

Scottish Opera, 16 , 237

Glasgow Herald,242 n

Glass, Philip, 36 ;

Satyagraha, 27

Glinka, Mikhail, 25 , 110

Gloriana (Britten), 273

Gluck, Christoph Willibald von, 24 , 26 , 27 , 39 , 42 , 49 , 80 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 96 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 106 , 228 , 257 ;

Alceste, 81 , 82 -84;

Iphigénie en Tauride,84 , 269 -70;

Orfeo ed Euridice,22 , 142 , 270

Glyndebourne (England):

Glyndebourne Opera Festival, 17 , 26 , 65 , 66 ,102 , 122 , 134 , 240 , 241,243 , 257 , 269 , 271 , 273 , 274 ;

Glyndebourne Touring Company, 16 , 134

Godard, Jean-Luc, 132

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 69 , 110 , 173 , 196 , 197 , 198 , 227 , 233 , 253

Gogol, Nikolai, 132 , 227

Goldoni, Carlo, 57

Gonchorova, Natalya, 273

The Gondoliers (Sullivan), 131

The Good Woman of Setzuan (Brecht), 130

Gorki, Maxim, 132

Götterdämmerung (Wagner), 22 , 210 , 212

Göttingen (Germany) Festival, 101

Gounod, Charles, 35 , 177 , 198 , 233 , 256 ;

Faust, 21 , 187 -90, 227 ;

Romeo et Juliette,24 , 227

Gouthier, Henri, 55 n

Graham, Colin, 238

Graham, Martha, 266

La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein (Offenbach), 23 , 229 , 231 , 232

Graun, Carl Heinrich: Montezuma,103

Great Britain, opera in, 16 , 19 , 53 , 237 , 238

Greek tragedy, 6 , 69 , 79 -93, 145 . See also Euripides; Sophocles; and individual plays

Greene, Thomas M., 118

Gregor, Bohumil, 236

Grene, David, 86

Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm, 274

Grisi, Giulia, 156 , 163

Grotowski, Jerzy, 136

Grout, Donald, 99

The Guardian (Manchester and London), 64

Guercino [Giovanni Francesco Barbieri], 111

Tyrone Guthrie Theatre. See Minneapolis


292

The Gypsy Baron (J. Strauss Jr.), 17

The Gypsy Princess (Csárd ásfürstin ) (Kálmán), 23

H

Haar, James, 113

Hadley, Jerry, 272

Hagemann, Carl, 247

Hager, Paul, 210 , 211

The Hague, opera in, 246

Haitink, Bernard, 58 , 257

Halévy, Fromental, 25 , 189 , 255 n;

La Juive, 184

Hall, Peter, 53 , 58 , 64 , 78 , 124 , 127 , 213 , 257 , 258

Halle (Germany) Festival, 101 -2

Hamburg:

Hamburg Opera, 123;

opera in, 17 , 18 , 31 , 211

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 87 , 127 -28

Hamlet (Thomas), 25

Hampe, Michael, 48

Handel, George Frederick, 18 , 26 , 27 , 42 , 45 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 98 , 99 , 101 -2, 103 , 104 , 114 , 119 , 130 , 244 ;

Alcina 112 , 116 ;

Ariodante, 112 , 116 ;

Giulio Cesare,14 , 23 , 98 , 102 , 131 , 134 , 135 ;

Giustino, 27 , 106 ;

Orlando, 102 , 112 , 116 , 117,134 , 135 ;

Rinaldo, 14 , 105 ;

Saul, 134 , 135

Handel and the Opera Seria (Dean), 43 , 95

Handel Opera Society. See London

Hang on to Me (Gorki), 132

Hannover (Germany), opera in, 18 , 208

Hansel and Gretel [Häsel und Gretel ] (Humperdinck), 21

Hanslick, Eduard, 8 , 216

Harding, James, 231 , 232

Harington, John, 108 , 111

Harries, Meirion and Susie, 24

Hart, Lorenz, 253

Hartmann, Rudolf, 124 n

Hartnoll, Phyllis, 255 n

Harvard Crimson (Cambridge, Mass.), 132

Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.), 130 , 132 , 133 , 135 , 142 , 177 ;

Adams House, 131 ;

Harvard/Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players, 131 ;

Loeb Theatre, 131 -32

Hasse, Johann Adolf 70 , 96 , 99 , 103 ;

Attilio regolo,103

Hauptmann, Gerhart, 252

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 227

Haydn, (Franz) Joseph, 23 , 96 , 101 , 103 , 135 ;

Armida, 134 ;

Orlando paladino,112 , 116

Hearst, William Randolph, 8 n

Heartz, Daniel, xvi , 57 , 128 n, 146

Hefner, Hugh, 126

Heidelberg: University, 245

Helmsley, Leona, 143

Help, Help, the Globolinks! (Menotti), 15 -16

Helsinki, opera in (inc. Finnish National Opera), 18

Henze, Hans Werner, 49

Herlischka, Bohumil, 55 n, 236

Hernani (Hugo), 172 , 173 , 174 , 175 , 176 , 177 , 181 , 182

Hérodiade (Massenet), 25 , 285 , 286 -87, 191

Herz, Joachim, 53 , 212 , 236 , 242

L'Heure espagnole (Ravel), 274

Hidalgo, Elvira Di, 158

High Fidelity (New York), 259

Hildesheimer, Wolfgang, 58 , 98 n, 150 n

Hindemith, Paul, 228

Histoire du Romantisme (Gautier), 173

Hitler, Adolf, 193 , 197 , 199 , 200 , 201 , 202 , 209

Hockney, David, 266 , 266 , 271 , 273 , 274 -75

Hocquard, Jean Victor, 150 n

Hoffmann, E. T. A., 227 -28, 230 -31, 232 , 233 , 234

Hoffmann, Françis-Benolt, 84 , 85 , 86 n

Hoffmann, Joseph, 205 -6

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 49 , 86 -87, 89 -90, 90 n, 245 -54

Hogarth, William, 271

Hohenemser, Richard, 86 n

Hoiby, Lee, 262

Holland Festival, 236 , 239 , 240

Holst, Gustav, 255 n

Holy Roman Empire, 197 , 200

Homer, 69 , 89

Honegger, Arthur, 176 , 190

Hong Kong, opera in, 18 , 30 , 31

Hordern, Michael, 91

Horne, Marilyn, 102 , 104 , 105,106 , 163 , 257

Houston (Texas):

Houston Grand Opera, 134 , 274 ;

opera in, 18 , 31

The Hudson Review (New York), 39 , 42

Hugo, Victor, 43 , 69 , 172 -82, 184 , 187

Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer), 25 , 184 , 185

Humperdinck, Engelbert: Hansel and Gretel,21

The Hunchback of Notre Dame . See Notre Dame de Paris

Hus, Jan, 184

I

Ibsen, Henrik, 6 , 49 , 131 , 178

Idiot's Delight (Sherwood), 133

Idomeneo (Mozart), 23 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 38 n, 72 , 94 , 99 , 102 , 274

Ifigenia in Tauride (Traetta), 103

Iliad (Homer), 108

L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi), 23 , 25 , 72 , 183

Indiana, Robert, 266 , 271 -72, 275 , 276

Ingalls, James, 137

Ingres, Dominique, 112


293

Innaurato, Albert, 68

The Inspector General (Gogol), 132

Intermezzo (R. Strauss), 250

Ionesco, Eugène, 175

Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck), 84 , 269 -70

Ipswich (Mass.): Castle Hill Festival, 134

Irwin, Bill, 136

Isolde (character in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde ), 164 , 171

Istanbul, 193 ;

opera in, 18

L'italiana in Algeria (Rossini), 23

Italy, opera in, 9 -10, 19 , 53 , 95 , 96 , 100 , 237 , 247

Ivanhoe (Sullivan), 224

Ives, Charles, 242

J

Jackson, Robert, 202

La Jalousie Amoureuse (Lagache), 222

Janácek[*] Congress, International (1958); 240

Janácek[*] ,  Léos[*] , 26 , 27 , 46 , 49 , 235 -44, 239n, 242 n;

The Beginning of a Novel,236 ;

The Cunning Little Vixen,24 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 242 , 274 ;

The Excursions of Mr.  Broucek[*] , 236 , 243 ;

From the House of the Dead,236 , 237 , 238 , 240 , 243 ;

Jenufa[*] , 22 , 235 , 237 , 238 , 239 , 240 , 241,242 , 243 , 244 ;

Kátya Kabanová,22 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 239n,240 , 240 n, 242 , 243 , 244 ;

The Makropoulos Case,24 , 236 , 237 , 239 n, 240 , 242 , 244 ;

Osud, 236 , 240 ;

Sarka, 236

Japan, opera in, 30

Järvefelt, Goeran, 53

Jaspers, Karl, 221

Jeanne d'Arc au bächer (Honegger), 190

Jeffers, Robinson, 81

Jenufa[*] [originally entitled Její pastorkyna, or Her Foster-Daughter ] ( Janácek[*] ), 22 , 141 , 235 , 237 , 238 , 239 , 240 , 241, 242 , 243 , 244

Jeritza, Maria, 236 , 237 , 238

The Jewels of the Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari), 25

Joel, Nicholas, 53

Johnson, Samuel, 2 , 109

Jommelli, Niccolò, 96 , 101 ;

Fetonte, 103 ;

La schiava liberata,27 , 103

Jones, Inigo, 266

Jones, Rev. Jim, 185

Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (Massenet), 25 , 190

Jonson, Ben, 109

La Juive (Halévy), 25 , 184 , 185

Juilliard School of Music. See New York

Julius II, Pope, 108

Jungwirth, Manfred, 249

K

Kálmán, Imre: The (Gypsy Princess,23

Kallman, Chester, 271

Kassel (Germany), opera in, 142 , 211 -12

Kátya Kabanová ( Janácek[*] ), 22 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 239 , 239 n, 240 , 240 n, 242 , 243 , 244

Kautsky, Hans, 207

Keach, Stacey, 133

Keene (New Hampshire): Keene State College, 134

Keller, Hans, 38 , 48

Kemble, Fanny, 175

Kent Opera (England), 16

Kerman, Joseph, xv , 32 n, 33 , 38 -45, 38 n, 40 n, 42 n, 44 n, 48 , 48 n, 58 , 59 , 64 , 122 , 124 , 219

Khlebnikov, Velimir, 133

Khovanshchina (Mussorgsky), 24

King Lear (Godard film ), 132

King Lear (Shakespeare), 131 -32, 135 , 260 , 261 -62

Kivy, Peter, ix , 37 n

Kleiber, Carlos, 58

Das kleine Mahagonny (Brecht/Weill), 134

Klemperer, Otto, 127 , 267

Kniplová, Nadezda, 236

Knussen, Oliver, 274

Koegler, Horst, 218

Kokoschka, Oskar, 266 , 267 , 269

Koltai, Ralph, 267

Komische Oper. See Berlin

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 244

Kotzebue, August von, 198

Kovarovic[*] , Karel, 235

Kowalski, Stanley and Stella (characters in Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire ), 140

Kracauer, Siegfried, 231 , 232 -33

Krafft-Ebing, Richard, Count von, 183

Kramden, Ralph and Alice (characters In the U.S. television series, The Honeymooners ), 140

Krauss, Clemens, 51 , 252

Kreisleriana (Schumann), 228

"The Kreutzer Sonata" (Tolstoy), 6

Krolloper. See Berlin

Kubelik, Rafael, 236 , 238 , 240

Kupfer, Harry, 53 , 58 , 213

L

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

Lakmé (Delibes), 25 , 192

Lalo, Edouard, 176

Lancaster, Osbert, 66


294

The Land of Smiles [Das Land des Lächelns ] (Lehár), 23

Landon, H. C. Robbins, 128 n

Large, David C., 205

Larson, Susan, 133 , 146

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;

opera in, 206 , 211 -12, 242

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

Liszt, Franz, 159 , 176

Literature into Opera (Schmidgall), 33

Lobel, Adrianne, 137

Loeb Theatre. See Harvard University

Loewenberg, Alfred, 95

Lohengrin (Wagner), 20 , 22

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 ;

opera in, 134 , 274 ;

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 ;

Alceste, 80 , 82

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

Lyubimov, Yuri, 53 , 136

M

MacArthur Foundation (New York), 132

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 131 , 264

Macbeth (Verdi), 13 , 22 , 26 , 255 -56

McCracken, James, 219 , 221

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 118

Mackerras, Charles, 237 , 239 , 239 n, 240 , 242 , 243

MacLaine, Shirley, 141

MacNeil, Cornell, 179

Madame Butterfly (Puccini), 20 , 21 , 25 , 34 , 42 n, 45 , 49 , 63 , 141

Maddalena, James, 133

Madrid, opera in, 18

Madrigals, 112 -15

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 253

Magdeburg (Germany), opera in, 163

The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte ) (Mozart), 20 , 21 , 26 , 38 , 46 , 52 , 55 n, 63 , 134 ,


295

141 , 183 , 266 , 268 , 269 , 270 , 274

The Magic Mountain (Mann), 78

Mahler, Gustav, 35 , 208

The Makropolous Case ( Janácek[*] ), 24 , 236 , 237 , 239 , 239 n, 240 , 242 , 243 , 244

Malbos, Pierre, 150 n

Maldiney, Henri, 55 n

Malibran, Maria, 156 -57, 158 , 164 , 167

Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Poulenc), 275

Manchester (New Hampshire), opera in, 133

Mann, Thomas, 78

Mann, William, 150 n

Mannheim (Germany), opera in, 19 , 103 , 247

Manon (Massenet), 14 , 23 , 34 , 55 n, 64 , 190 -91

Manon Lescaut (Puccini), 10 , 22 , 26

Mansart, Jules, 70

Mansouri, Lotfallah [Lotfi], 237

Mantegna, Andrea, 111 , 113

Mantua (Italy), 110

Maometto II (Rossini), 94

Marcello, Benedetto, 9 -10, 51

Marek, George, 217

Maria Theresa, Empress, 95

"Marguerite" (Schubert), 234

Marie-Madeleine (Massenet), 190

Marion Delorme (Hugo), 173 , 174

Marlowe, Christopher, 109

The Marriage of Figaro (Lenozze di Figaro ) (Mozart), xiii , 20 , 21 , 25 , 26 , 33 , 39 , 41 , 43 , 62 , 70 , 122 , 134 , 137 -38, 143 , 147 , 149 -50, 151 -52, 153 , 154

Marseilles, opera in, 18 , 213 , 268

Martha (Flotow), 25

Martin, Steve, 141

Martin y Soler, Vicente, 149 n

Martinelli, Giovanni, 163

Mascagni, Pietro, 10 , 14 , 27 ;

Cavalleria rusticana,22

Massenet, Jules, 25 , 27 , 36 , 49 , 176 , 244 ;

Cherubin, 27 ;

Hérodiade,185 , 186 -87;

Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame,190 ;

Manon, 22 , 64 , 190 -91;

Marie-Madeleine,190 ;

La Navarraise,190 ;

Thaïs, 23 , 185 , 187 , 188;

Werther, 22

Massine, Leonid, 276

Masson, André, 266 , 270 , 276

Masterson, Valerie, 117

Mastilovic, Danila, 89

Masur, Kurt, 257

Matisse, Henri, 275

Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa), 24

Maurel, Victor, 11

Maxwell Davies, Peter, 134

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 131

Medea (Euripides), 81 , 83 -86, 86 n

Medea (Pasolini film), 84

Médée [Medea ] (Cherubini), 24 , 81 , 84 -86, 86 n, 169 , 169 n, 270

Meese, Ed, 143

Mefistofele (Boito), 23 , 27 , 45

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner), xiv , 22 , 25 , 26 , 34 , 47,184 , 194 , 197 , 198 , 199,200 , 201 , 202

Melba, Nellie, 11

Melchinger, Siegfried, 55 n

Melchior, Lauritz, 207

Melodrama, 43 , 181 -82

Mendelssohn, Felix, 258

Menotti, Gian Carlo, xvi , 16 , 38 n, 103 , 259 , 260 , 269

Mercadante, Saverio: Il giuramento,177

The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 61

Mérimée, Prosper, 61 , 191

The Merry Widow [Die lustige Witwe ] (Lehár), 17 , 19 , 21

The Merry Wives of Windsor [Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor ] (Nicolai), 23

Metastasio, Pietro, 51 , 57 , 70 , 95 -97, 99 -100, 104

Metropolitan Opera. See New York

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, xvi , 10 , 25 , 27 , 35 , 49 , 176 , 184 ;

Le Prophète,10 , 184 ;

Robert le diable,189

Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 131 , 131 n, 132 , 133 , 153

Michelangelo (Buonarotti), 6 , 111

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten), 24 , 255 n, 256 -59, 260 , 270 , 273

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare), 257 -59, 260

Mignon (Thomas), 25 , 68

The Mikado (Sullivan), 19 , 23 , 134 , 135 , 229

Milan, 110 , 136 ;

opera in, 19 , 31 , 84 , 208 , 211 ;

Piccola Scala, 273 ;

Piccolo Teatro di Milano, 136 ;

Teatro alla Scala [La Scala], 7 , 15 , 18 , 28 , 53 , 57 , 60 n, 103 , 158 n, 159 , 161 , 164 , 237

Milanov, Zinka, 35

Milhaud, Darius, 265 , 275 , 276

Miller, Arthur, 130

Miller, Jonathan, 53 , 61 n, 62 , 135 , 236 , 257

Millöcker, Carl: Der Bettelstudent,24

Milnes, Sherrill, 188

Milton, John, 70 , 109

Minneapolis (Minn.):

Center Opera Company, 271 ;

Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, 132

Le Miracle de Notre-Dame (Honegger), 190

Mireille (Gounod), 19


296

Misdirection: Opera Production in the Twentieth Century [Malaise in der Oper ] (Nagler), 53

Les Misérables (Boublil and Schoenberg), 175 , 177

Les Misérables (Hugo), 175

Mitchell, Leona, 14

Mitridate (Scarlatti), 103

Mnouchine, Ariane, 115

Modernism, 207 , 209 , 260 , 262

Mödl, Martha, 89

Moholy-Nagy, Lásló, 266 , 267

Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], 109 , 154175 , 248

Monet, Claude, 6

Monroe, Marilyn, 271

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de, 118

Montemezzi, Italo: The Love of Three Kings,25

Monteverdi, Claudio, 25 , 26 , 27 , 34 , 39 , 42 , 49 , 70 , 79 , 80 , 85 , 106 , 141 , 244 ;

L'incoronazione di Poppea,23 , 183 ;

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria,56

Montezuma (Graun), 103

The Moor's Pavane (Limon), 152

Moore, Henry, 210 , 266 , 269

Morbid Jealousy and Murder (Mowat), 220

Morella, Francesco, 121

Morris, Mark, 135 , 138

Moscow, opera in, 4

Moses und Aron (Schoenberg), 236

The Mother of Us All (Thomson), 271 -72

Mounet-Sully [Jean-Sully Mounet], 174

Mowat, R. R., 220

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 10 , 11 , 12 , 17 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 29 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 n, 39 , 40 , 46 , 47 , 53 , 63 , 64 , 71 , 78 , 98 n, 99 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 106 , 130 , 133 , 134 , 137 -55, 195 , 228 , 233 , 244 , 245 , 271 , 276 ;

The Abduction from the Seraglio,21 ;

La clemenza di Tito,22 , 25 , 26 , 94 , 95 , 99 , 102 , 129 ;

Così fan tutte,21 , 25 , 26 , 44 -45, 122 , 134 , 137 , 140 -54, 146;

Don Giovanni,11 , 21 , 44 -45, 120 -29, 123,129 n, 133 , 134 , 138 -55, 225 , 234 , 269 ;

La finta giardiniera,23 ;

Idomeneo, 23 , 25 , 26 , 38 n, 94 , 99 , 102 , 274 ;

Lucio Silla,96 , 98 n;

The Magic Flute,21 , 134 , 268 , 274 -75;

The Marriage of Figaro,21 , 122 , 134 , 137 -54, 268 ;

Il re pastore,96 , 98 n.

See also under individual operas

Mozart (Hildesheimer), 150 n

Mozart (Wyzewa and Saint-Foix), 150 n

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Rushton), 150 n

Mozart: Don Juan (l'Avant-Scène Opéra ), 150 n

Mozart Jahrbuch (Salzburg), 150 n

Mozart on the Stage (Liebner), 150 n

Mozart's Don Giovanni (Abert), 150 n

Mozart's Operas (Heartz), 128 n

Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare), 109

Munich, 19 ;

Bavarian State Opera, 18 ;

Munich Festival, 240 ;

opera in, 19 , 31 , 206 , 208 , 236 , 246 , 252 ;

Theater am Gärtnerplatz, 17

Munsel, Patrice, 42 n

Münster (Germany), 184 ;

opera in, 236

Music and Musicians (London), 259

Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts (New York), 16 n

Musical analysis, xiv -xvi, 32 , 32 n, 44

Musical Times (London), 13 , 242 n

Musset, Alfred de, 181 , 247

Mussorgsky, Modest, 176 ;

Boris Godunov,22 ;

Khovanshchina,24

My Fair Lady (Lerner), 17 , 23

My One and Only (Gershwin), 132

N

Nabucco (Verdi), 22 , 26 , 174

Nagasaki (Japan), 141

Nagler, A. M., 53 -54, 56

Nana (Zola), 229 -30

Nanterre (France): Théâtre des Amandiers, 134

Naples, opera in (inc. Teatro San Carlo), 17 , 103

Napoleon I, emperor of France, 101

Napoleon III, emperor of France, 228 , 230

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, 62 n

La Navarraise (Massenet), 190

Nazism (National Socialism), 141 , 199 , 200 , 201 , 202 , 207 , 208 , 209 , 212 , 213

Neave, Airey, 202

Neher, Caspar, 267

Neoclassicism, 83 , 166 n, 180

Nerval, Gerard de, 227

NET [National Educational Television, now Public Broadcasting System], opera on, 238

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe [authoritative edition of Mozart scores], 150 n

Neue Sachlichkeit (art movement), 267 , 273

Neumann, Angelo, 206

Nevelson, Louise, 266 , 270

New Criticism, 39 -40

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,176

New Oxford Companion to Music,80

New York (city), 137 , 138 ,


297

144 , 172 , 176 , 273 ;

Juilliard School of Music, 259 , 260 ;

Lincoln Center, 259 ;

Metropolitan Opera, 12 -14, 15 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 25 -26, 31 , 42 n, 53 , 57 , 64 , 105 , 136 , 158 , 207 , 209 , 229 , 237 , 243 , 259 , 268 , 270 , 273 , 275 ;

New York City Opera, 17 , 252 , 274 ;

opera in, 16 , 35 , 65 , 207 , 211 , 244 , 252 ;

Trump Tower. 137 , 145

The New Yorker,16 , 136 , 257

New York Journal,8 n

New York Times,264

Newman, Ernest, 51 , 90 n, 211 , 237

Nice (France), opera in, 18 , 213

Nicolai, Otto: The Merry Wives of Windsor,23

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 66

A Night in Venice [Eine Nacht in Venedig ] (J. Strauss Jr.), 23

Nijinska, Bronislava, 265

Nilsson, Birgit, 12

Nixon in China (Adams), 19 , 57 , 134

Nocker, Hanns, 219

Noelte, Rudolf, 124 n

Noguchi, Isamu, 266

The Nonexistent Knight [Il cavaliere non esistante ] (Calving), 160

Norma (Bellini), xiv , 20 , 23 , 26 , 34 n, 42 , 43 , 56 , 141 , 156 -71, 160 , 166 n, 168 n

Norman, Jessye, 137

Notre-Dame de Paris (Hugo), 174 , 175 , 176 , 184 , 187

La Notte (Antonioni), 138

Le nozze di Figaro . See The Marriage of Figaro

Nuremberg, 193 -203;

Castle, 200 -2;

Direr House, 202 ;

Frauentor Gate, 202 ;

German National Museum, 196 ;

Market Place, 200 ;

Nuremberg Trials, 202 ;

Nuremberg Rallies, 200 -1;

opera in, 201 ;

Palace of Justice, 202 ;

St. Catherine's Church, 202 ;

St. Sebaldus's Church, 202 ;

Town Hall, 201

Nuremberg in the Sixteenth Century (G. Strauss), 195

The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky), 228

O

Oberlin, Russell, 257

Oberon (Weber), 24

O'Connell, Charles, 25

Odyssey (Homer), 108

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 81 , 91 -93

Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky), xiv , 81 , 90 -93, 275

Offenbach, Jacques, xiv , 10 , 49 , 128 , 224 -34, 252 ;

La belle Hélène,23 , 229 , 231 ;

La Grande Duchesse de Gèolstein,23 , 229 , 231 , 232 ;

Orphée aux enfers,22 , 229 , 231 ;

La Périthole,12 , 229 , 231 , 232 ;

Tales of Hoffmann,21 , 224 -34, 226;

La Vie parisienne,22 , 229 , 231 , 232

Offenbach-am-Main (Germany), 228

L'Olimpiade (text by Metastasio; set to music by Vivaldi and others), 36 , 95 , 98 , 106

Oliver, A. Richard, 182

Olivier, Laurence, 167

On Trial at Nuremberg (Neave), 133

O'Neill, Eugene, 81 , 133 , 145

O'Neill, James, 133

Opera:

aesthetics of, 37 -78;

criticism of audiences, 5 , 7 , 8 , 12 , 13 -14, 31 -32;

criticism of inadequate performances, 8 -15;

criticism of inherent dramatic "absurdity" and archaism, 33 -34;

criticism of novel productions, 51 -58, 62 -64, 135 -55, 212 -14;

dramatic values, 12 , 13 -14, 34 , 40 , 67 ;

economics of, 7 , 8 , 15 , 16 n. 30 -31, 33 ;

festivals, 16n, 17 , 101 -2, 269 -70;

fundamental criticism of, 1 -7, 31 -36;

ideal spectator, 66 -73;

most often performed works (the "standard repertory"), 16 , 19 -27, 49 , 69 , 70 ;

opera companies, comparison of, 16 -18;

production styles and standards, 51 -66, [of Wagner's Ring ] 204 -24;

scenic design, 265 -71;

singers, 100 and passim ; social criticism of, 8 , 65 -66;

on television, 7 , 134 , 238

Opera (London), 13 , 20 , 27 , 103 , 124 , 218 , 243 , 257

Opera and Ideas (Robinson), 35

Opera as Drama (Kerman), 38 -45, 38 n, 44 n, 48 n, 122

Opéra-Comique. See Paris

Opera in Crisis (Pleasants), 53

Opera News (New York), 42 n, 243

Opera, or the Undoing of Women [Opéra ou la défaite des femmes ] (Clément), 34 n, 167 -68, 168 n

Opera seria, 46 , 49 , 61 , 70 , 94 -106, 141 ;

rules for, 98 -99

Opera Today (M. and S. Harties), 24

The Operas of Mozart (Mann), 150 n

Operetta (or light opera, musical, opera bouffe, opéra comique), 20 , 25 , 34 , 224 , 229 , 252

Orange (France) Festival, 219

Orfeo (Monteverdi), 38 , 39 , 79

Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), 22 , 26 , 142 , 270

Orff, Carl, 255 n

Orlando (Handel), 102 , 112 , 116 , 134 , 135 , 136


298

Orlando furioso (Ariosto), 107 -119;

in art, 110 -12;

in literature, 108 -10;

in madrigals, 112 -15;

in opera, 115 -16

Orlando furioso (Ronconi stage pageant and film), 115

Orlando furioso (Vivaldi), 27 , 94 , 112 , 116

Orlando paladino (Haydn), 112 , 116

Orléans, Duchesse de (Hélène de Mecklenburg), 174

Ormindo (Cavalli), 27

Orpheus in the Underworld [Orphée aux enfers ] (Offenbach), 22 , 229 , 231

Osborne, Nigel, 134

Osmin's Rage (Kivy), ix , 37 n

Osud ( Janácek[*] ), 236 , 240

Otello (Verdi), xiv , xv , 10 , 11 , 21 , 25 , 33 , 39 , 215 -23, 221,242 , 273

Otello : Disposizione sceniche (i.e., production book, ed. Ricordi), 60 n

Othello (Shakespeare), 152 , 215 , 216 , 217 , 218 , 219 , 220 , 260

Ovid, 111

Owen Wingrave (Britten), 273

Oxford University, 80 , 245

P

I pagliacci (Leoncavallo), 10 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 45

Palsiello, Giovanni, 101 , 103

The Pajama Game (Adler and Ross), 132

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 113

Palladio, Andrea, 111 , 266

Paoli, Domenico de, 161

Parade (ballet, music by Milhaud), 275 , 276

Paradise Lost (Milton), 109

Paris, 83 , 84 , 86 n, 100 , 101 , 112 , 130 , 174 , 176 , 183 , 184 , 185 , 192 , 193 , 227 , 228 , 230 , 232 , 265 , 271 , 273 , 275 ;

Bastille, 1 ;

Comédie-Française, 104 , 172 , 174 , 175 ;

Commune (1871), 232 ;

International Exposition (1855), 229 ;

International Exposition (1867), 174 ;

"Journées de Mai" (1968), 211 ;

Montmartre, 271 ;

Opéra [Palais Garnier], xiv , 15 -16, 17 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 57 , 85 , 160, 184 , 185 , 225 , 228 , 268 , 269 , 270 ;

Opéra-Bastille, 1 , 17 , 30 -31;

Opéra-Comique, 229 , 234 , 271 ;

opera in, 2 , 17 , 18 , 57 , 159 , 163 , 207 , 211 , 237 , 252 , 259 ;

Panthéon, 174 ;

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572), 184 ;

Théâtre de l'Odéon, 227 ;

Théâtre des Nations Festival, 240

Parker, Roger, xvi

Parma (Italy), opera in, 60

Parsifal (Wagner), 21 , 25 , 35 , 36 , 46 , 53 , 60 , 104 , 183 , 187

Pasolini, Pier-Paolo, 81 , 84

Pasta, Giuditta, 156 , 157 , 159 , 164

Pasternak, Boris, 134

"Pathétique" Symphony (Tchaikovsky), 24

Patterson, Susan, 272

Patti, Adelina, 159

Pavarotti, Luciano, 14 , 18 , 35 , 60 , 74 , 181

The Pearl Fishers [Les Pêcheurs des Perles ] (Bizet), 23

Pears, Peter, 257 , 258

Peduzzi, Richard, 212 , 213

Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy), 23 , 46 , 52 , 141 , 192

Penderecki, Krzysztof, 49 ;

The Black Mask,49

PepsiCo Summerfare. See Purchase, N.Y.

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 96 , 103

Peri, Jacopo, 79 ;

Euridice, 79

La Péichole (Offenbach), 12 , 229 , 231

Perry, Eugene, 138

Perry, Herbert, 138

Perugia (Italy), opera in, 103

Perugino (Pletro Vannucci), 113

Peter Grimes (Britten), 23 , 40 n, 184 , 192 , 244

Pfitzner, Hans, 252

Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.), 130

Physiology of the Opera (Scrici), 52

Plave, Francesco Maria, 178

Picasso, Pablo, 265 , 275 , 276

Piccinni, Nicola, 96 , 102

Piccoli, Michel, 91

Piccolo Teatro di Milano. See Milan

Pinza, Ezio, 125

Piombo, Sebastiano Del, 111

Piper, John, 266 , 269 , 272 , 273 -74

Piper, Myfanwy, 273

Pirchan, Emil, 209

Pizzi, Pier Luigi, 72 , 267

Plath, Wolfgang, 150 n

Pleasants, Henry, 53 n, 52 -54, 56

Poe, Edgar Allan, 227

Pouchielli, Amilcare, 180 ;

La Gioconda,23 , 68 , 174 , 177

Ponnelle, Jean-Pierre, 45 , 53 , 57 , 58 , 64 , 124 , 125 , 127 , 267

Ponselle, Rosa, 76 , 156 -57, 158 , 159

Pope, Alexander, 80

Popper, Jan, 237

Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 24

Porpora, Nicola, 70 , 99

Porter, Andrew, 13 -14, 27 , 64 , 136 , 144 -45, 151 , 158 , 260 , 262

Poulenc, Francis, 49 ;

Les Dialogues des Carmélites,23 , 192 ;

Les Mamelles de Tirésias,275


299

Pountney, David, 53 , 64

Prague, 19 , 128 n, 236 ;

International  Janácek[*] Congress (1958), 240 ;

National Theatre, 129 n, 235 , 239 -40;

opera in, 95 , 121 , 129 , 150 n, 239 ;

Prague Festival, 240

Preetorius, Emil, 208

"Preface to Cromwell " (Hugo), 175

Price, Leontyne, 259 , 260

Price, Margaret, 152

Prince Igor (Borodin), 24

Princeton University, 264

Pritchard, John, 58

Prokofiev, Sergei, 58 ;

The Fiery Angel,24 , 27 ;

The Love for Three Oranges,24 , 274

Le Prophète (Meyerbeer), 10 , 25 , 184 , 185

Proust, Marcel, 223

Puccini, Giacomo, 17 , 27 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 38 n, 41 -42, 42 n, 45 , 51 , 63 , 68 , 141 , 166 , 256 , 260 ;

La Bohème,21 , 42 n;

Gianni Schicchi,23 ;

Madame Butterfly,21 , 42 n, 45 , 63 ;

Manon Lescaut,23 ;

La rondine, 24 ;

Il tabarro, 24 , 260 ;

Tosca, ii-iii, xvii , 21 , 41 , 42 n, 68 , 166 ;

Turandot, 21 , 38 n, 41 .

See also under individual operas

Purcell, Henry, 39 , 40 , 70 , 258 ;

Dido and Aeneas,24 , 42

Purchase (N.Y.): PepsiCo Summerfare, xiii , 126 n, 133 , 134 , 138 , 146,147 , 148 , 155

I puritani (Bellini), 269

Pushkin, Alexander, 110 , 131

Q

The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky), 22

Quo Vadis (film), 260

R

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


300

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

S

Sacchini Antonio, 103

Sachs, Hans, 193 , 194 , 196 , 197 , 200 , 201 , 202 -3

Le Sacre du printemps (Stravinsky), 275

Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov), 25

Sadler's Wells Opera. See London

Saint-Évremond, Charles de, 2

Saint-Foix, Georges de, 122 , 150 n

St. Louis: Opera Theatre of St. Lores, 18 , 27 , 270

St. Petersburg (Russia), 265 , 273

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 176 , 184 , 185 , 186 ;

Samson et Dalila,23 , 184 , 185 -86

Saheri, Antonio, 99 , 103 , 255 n;

Les Danaïdes,103 ;

Prima la musica,99

Salome (R. Strauss), 8 n, 21 , 38 , 38 n, 41 , 42 n, 51 , 53 , 55 n, 62 , 183 , 186 , 247 , 268

Salzburg Festival, 15 , 65 , 102 , 199 , 211 , 246 , 247 , 252 , 269

Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns), 10 , 23 , 26 , 70 , 184 , 185 -86, 191

San Francisco, opera in, 17 , 42 n, 53 , 210 , 211 , 212 , 219 , 237 , 238 , 243 , 244 , 252 , 257 , 264 ;

San Francisco Opera, ii-iii,xiii , 17, 37 , 47 ,65 , 106 , 117, 179 , 186 , 188 , 221 , 226 , 249 , 263 , 272

San Francisco Chronicle,42 n

San Francisco Opera Magazine,xiii , xvi

San Michele (Italy), 248

"The Sandman" (Hoffmann), 231

Santa Fe (N.M.): Santa Fe Opera, 17 , 27 , 238 , 246 , 262 , 272

Sarcey, Francisque, 174 , 177

Sarka ( Janácek[*] ), 236

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 81

Sassuolo (Italy), 111

Satie, Erik, 265

Saturday Night Live (U.S. television show), 141

Satyagraha (Glass), 19 , 27

Saul (Handel), 134 , 135

Savinio, Alberto, 269

La Scala. See Milan, Teatro alla Scala

Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 266

Scandinavia, opera in, 18

Scarlatti, Alessandro, 18 , 95 , 103 , 268 ;

Mitridate, 103

Schavernoch, Hans, 213

Schenker, Heinrich, 48 n

La schiava liberata (Jommelli), 27 , 103

Schiller, Friedrich, 69 , 176 , 178 , 198

Schikaneder, Johann Emanuel, 268 , 274

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 266 , 274

Schippers, Thomas, 259

Schlöndorff, Volker, 236

Schmidgall, Gary, 33

Schneider, Hortense, 229

Schneider-Siemssen, Günther, 210 , 211 , 267

Schnitzler, Arthur, 250

Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Julius, 112

Schoenberg, Arnold, 261 ;

Erwartung, 260 ;

Moses und Aron,236

Schoenberg, Claude-Michel, 177

Schorr, Friedrih, 207

Schubert, Franz, 33 , 234

Schumann, Robert, 228

Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth, 42 n, 65 , 152

Die schweigsame Frau (R. Strauss), 24

Scott, Walter, 110 , 173 , 182

Scottish Opera. See Glasgow

Scribe, Eugène, 184 , 185 , 189 , 198 , 247 , 250 , 253

Scrici [John H. Swaby], 52

Scudo, Paul, 157

The Seagull (Chekhov), 133

Seattle, opera in, 19 , 213

Second Empire (France, 1852-1870), 174 , 228 , 229 , 230

Segalini, Sergio, 157 , 168 n

Seidl, Anton, 163

Sellars, Peter, xiii , 36 , 53 , 57 , 58 , 62 , 63 , 126 n, 130 -55, 131 n, 150 n

Semiramide (Rossini), 94 , 102 , 106

Sendak, Maurice, 266 , 269 , 273 , 274

Senesino [Francesco Bernardi], 101

Serafin, Tullio, 158

Serban, Andrei, 53 , 130 , 136


301

Sergeant, Winthrop, 259

Serlio, Sebastiano, 266

1791: Mozart's Last Year (Landon), 128 n

Seydoux, Hélène, 34 n, 74 n, 167 , 168

Sezession (art movement, Vienna), 267

Shakespeare, William, xvi , 6 , 11 , 33 , 36 , 49 , 60 , 69 , 87 , 109 , 127 -28, 130 , 132 , 173 , 176 , 182 , 215 , 216 , 217 , 218 , 219 , 220 , 223 , 227 , 233 , 255 -64

"Shakespeare and Opera" (Dean), 255 n

Shakespeare in Music (Hartnoll), 255 n

Shaw, George Bernard, xiv , 10 -12, 13 -14, 33 , 34 , 45 , 47 , 49 , 51 , 59 , 71 , 90 n, 145 , 176 , 178 , 206 , 207 , 208 , 211 , 212 , 215

Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 236 , 239 , 240

Shearer, Moira, 225

Sherwood, Robert, 133

Shostakovitch, Dmitri, 49 ;

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,24 , 183

Sidney, Philip, 109

The Siege of Corinth [Le Siège de Corinthe ] (Rossini), 94

Siegfried (Wagner), 4 , 22 , 62 , 212

Siercke, Alfred, 267

Sievert, Ludwig, 208 , 209

Il signor Bruschino (Rossini), 23

Silja, Anja, 241

Sills, Beverly, 159 , 188,225

Simionato, Giulietta, 163

Simon Boccanegra (Verdi), 22

Simonson, Lee, 209

Simpson, Adrienne, 240 n

Sitwell, Edith, 130

Skalicki, Wolfram, 210

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 5 n

Smetana,  Bedrich[*] , 239 , 255 n;

The Bartered Bride,22

Smith, Craig, 58 , 136 , 142 , 149 , 152

Smith, Oliver, 267

Söderström, Elisabeth, 18 , 237 , 238 , 242 , 243

Solti, Georg, 58 , 257

La sonnambula (Bellini), 24 , 42 n

Sophocles, 80 , 81 , 86 -90, 91 -93, 133

Spain, opera in, 53

Spanish Civil War, 141

The Spectator (Addison and Steele, 18th C.), 2

The Spectator (London), 7 n

Spenser, Edmund, 70 , 109 , 119

Spoleto (Italy) Festival, 103 , 259 , 269

Spontini, Gaspare, 163 , 198 , 244

The Stage (London), 242 n

"The Staging of Verdi's Operas" (Rosen), 60n

Star Trek (U.S. television series), 110

Stein, Gertrude, 271 -72

Stein, Peter, 53

Stella, Frank, 137

Stendhal [Henri-Marie Beyle], 33 , 66 , 157 , 247

Stewart, Thomas, 37 , 263

Stignani, Ebe, 163

Stockholm, opera in, 18

Strasbourg, cathedral, 196 ;

opera in (Opéra du Rhin), 18 , 213

Strauss, Gerald, 195

Strauss, Johann, Jr., 229 ;

Die Fledermaus,21 ;

A Night in Venice,23

Strauss, Richard, 26 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 38 n, 41 -42, 42 n, 45 , 51 , 58 , 72 , 142 , 238 , 245 -54, 267 , 272 ;

Die äegyptische Helena,246 ;

Arabella, 23 , 245 , 247 , 250 ;

Ariadne auf Naxos,21 , 246 , 247 , 248 , 250 , 252 , 253 ;

Capriccio, 252 ;

Elektra, 22 , 81 , 86 -90, 90 n, 245 , 247 ;

Die Frau ohne Schatten,23 , 246 , 247 , 250 , 252 ;

Intermezzo,250 ;

Der Rosenkavalier,21 , 183 , 245 , 246 , 247 , 248 , 249 , 250 ;

Salome, 21 , 183 , 186 , 247 ;

Die schweigsame Frau,24 .

See also under individual operas

Stravinsky, Igor, 236 , 253 , 275 ;

Oedipus Rex,81 , 90 -93, 275 ;

The Rake's Progress,24 , 39 , 271 , 272 ;

Rossignol, 275 ;

Le Sacre du printemps,275

Strehler, Giorgio, 64 , 136 , 153

Stuttgart (Germany), opera in, 103 ;

Theater der Welt Festival, 134

Sullivan, Arthur, 224 .

See also Gilbert, W. S. and Sullivan, Arthur

Sunday Telegraph (London), 7

Sunday Times (London), 242 n

Supertitles, 69 , 120

Suppé Franz von, 255 n

Sutherland, Joan, 14 , 18 , 60 , 102 , 159 , 181 , 225

Svoboda, Josef, 130 , 236 , 267

Swaby, John H. See Scrici

Swaggart, Jimmy, 135

Swarthout, Gladys, 163

Sweden, opera in, 237

Switzerland, opera in, 247

Sydney, opera in (inc. Sydney Opera House ), 18 , 30 -31

T

Il tabarro (Puccini), 24 , 260

Takazaukas, Albert, 176

The Tales of Hoffmann (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) (Offenbach), 21 , 49 , 224 -34, 226

Talich, Vaclav, 239 , 239 n

Talvela, Martti, 18

The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 61

Tancredi (Rossini), 27 , 94 , 102

Tannhäuser (Wagner), 22 , 53 , 63 , 134 , 135 , 268 , 269

Tasso, Torquato, 108 , 110

Taylor, Paul, 266


302

Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich, 266 , 268 ;

Eugene Onegin,21 ;

"Pathétique" Symphony, 24 ;

The Queen of Spades,22

Tchelitchev, Pavel, 266 , 270 , 273

Te Kanawa, Kiri, 18

"Il Teatro alla moda" (Marcello), 9 -10, 51

Tebaldi, Renata, 35 , 42 n, 68

Tel Aviv, opera in, 18

Temistocle (J. C. Bach), 103

The Tempest (Eaton), 262 , 263

The Tempest (Shakespeare), 255 , 255 n, 262

Le Temps (Paris), 177

Thaïs (Massenet), 23 , 65 , 185 , 187 , 188, 191

The Theatre: An Introduction (Brockett), 131

Theatre Arts (New York), 12

Thebom, Blanche, 163

Third Reich. See Hitler; Nazism

Thirty Years' War (1618-48), 195 , 197

Thomas, Ambrolse, 255 n;

Hamlet, 25 ;

Mignon, 68

Thomas, Jess, 259

Thomson, Virgil, 13 , 43 , 77 n, 91 , 271 -72, 276 ;

The Mother of Us All,271 -72

The Three Sisters (Chekhov), 65 , 131

Tieck, Ludwig, 196

Tiepolo, Giandomenico, 111

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 111 , 119

Time (New York), 158

The Times (London), 59 , 202 , 206

Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 264

Tippett, Michael, 46

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), 111

Tivoli (Italy): Villa D'Este, 110

Tokyo, 135 ;

opera in, 18

Tolkien, J. R. R., 110

Tolstoy, Leo, 3 -6, 8 , 9 , 34 , 66 , 173

Toronto, opera in, 18 , 237

Tosca (Puccini), ii-iii, xvii , 8 n, 20 , 21 , 24 , 25 , 41 , 42 n, 49 , 68 , 135 , 166 , 184

Toscanini, Arturo, 51

Tovey, Donald F., 48 n

Traetta, Tommaso, 96 , 101 ;

Antigone, 103 ;

Ifigenia in Tauride,103

The Tragedy of Carmen (Bizet / Brook), 57

Le Train bleu (ballet, music by Milhaud), 265

Traubel, Helen, 159

La traviata (Verdi), 8n, 11 , 14 , 20 , 21 , 25 , 42 , 43 , 51 , 55 n, 67 , 190

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), 20 , 23 , 26 , 33 , 35 , 39 , 49 , 51 , 164 , 165 , 187 , 242 , 275

"Tristanism," 8

Triumph of the Will (Riefensthal film), 200

Troilus and Cressida (Shake-speare), 264

Troilus and Cressida (Walton), 264

Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 264

Tromboncino, Bartolomeo, 113

Il trovatore (Verdi), 13 -14, 21 , 177

Troyanos, Tatiana, 163

Les Troyens (Berlioz), 35

Tsypin, George, 137

Tucker, Norman, 239 , 240

Tucker, Richard, 12

Tune, Tommy, 132

Turandot (Puccini), 21 , 26 , 38 , 38 n, 41 , 49 , 72 , 81 , 104 , 168 , 238

Turin (Italy), opera in, 18 , 95 , 213

The Turn of the Screw (Britten), 23 , 273

Turner, Claramae, 47

Twiggy [Leslie Hornby], 132

U

Uccello, Paolo, 274

UCLA [University of California at Los Angeles] Opera Workshop. See Los Angeles

Ulysses (character in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ), 56

United States, opera in, 19 , 30 , 53 , 102 , 237 , 238 , 267

Urbino (Italy), 111

U.S.S.R., opera in, 17 , 19

Utrillo, Maurice, 266 , 271

V

Valle d'Istria (Italy) Festival, 103

Vancouver, B.C. (Canada), opera in, 159

Vasarély, Victor, 266 , 268 -69

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 239 , 255 n

Venice, 111 , 193 ;

opera in (inc. Teatro La Fenice ), 17 , 84 , 95 , 268

Verdi, Giuseppe, 10 , 12 , 13 -14, 27 , 30 , 32 n, 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 44 , 46 , 47 , 49 , 51 , 52 , 60 , 71 , 72 , 160 , 165 , 174 , 176 , 183 , 190 , 208 , 245 , 255 , 255 n, 266 ;

Aida,21 ;

Un ballo in maschera,21 ;

Don Carlos,xvii . 22 ;

Ernani, 172 , 177 , 178 , 181 , 182 ;

Falstaff, 21 , 256 ;

La forza del destino,22 ;

Luisa Miller,24 ;

Macbeth, 22 , 26 , 255 -56;

Nabucco, 22 , 26 ;

Otello, 21 , 60 n, 215 -23, 255 -56;

Rigoletto, 21 , 176 , 177 , 179 , 180 , 182 ;

Simon Boccanegra,22 ;

La traviata,11 , 21 , 55 n;

Il trovatore,21 ;

I vespri siciliani,183 .

See also under individual operas

Verriest, Guy, 55 , 55 n, 56 , 68

Versailles, opera at, 109

I vespri siciliani (Verdi), 183


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Vicenza (Italy), 125 ;

Teatro Olimpico, 266 ;

Villa Valmarana, 111

Vick, Graham, 53

Vickers, Jon, 192 , 219

The Victor Book of the Opera (O'Connell), 25 , 159 -60

La Vie parisienne (Offenbach), 22 , 229 , 231 , 232

Vienna, 83 , 90 , 128 n, 229 , 247 , 251 , 267 ;

opera in, 19 , 31 , 95 , 96 , 121 , 134 , 150 n, 207 , 208 , 211 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 243 , 244 , 252 ;

Vienna Court Opera, 208 ;

Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper), 16 , 17 , 28 , 57 , 207 , 246 , 251 ;

Vienna, University of, 245

Vietnam War, 140 , 142

Villa d'Este. See Tivoli

Villa Valmarana. See Vicenza

Vinci, Leonardo (composer), 70 , 96 , 99

Vinci, Leonardo da (painter), 111

Visconti, Luchino, 267

Viva la mamma . See Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali .

Vivaldi, Antonio, xiv , 9 , 49 , 94 , 99 , 103 , 119 ;

L'Olimpiade,95 , 106 ;

Orlando furioso,27 , 94 , 112 , 115 , 116

Voice:

emotional power of the singing voice, 73 -78, 167 ;

in opera, 42 , 44 , 106 ;

in the role of Norma, 156 , 157 , 166 , 170 -71;

voice lovers, 35 , 67 , 68 -69, 76

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 108 , 192

Von Karajan, Herbert, 15 , 57

Vyvyan, Jennifer, 257

W

Wackenroder, Heinrich, 196

Wagner, Cosima, 204 , 205 , 206 , 207 , 209 , 267

Wagner, Richard, xiv,4 -6, 5 n, 8 , 10 , 25 , 30 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 40 , 42 , 42 n, 44 , 46 , 47 , 47 , 49 , 51 , 52 , 55 n, 60 , 62 n, 63 , 68 , 72 , 90 , 112 , 131 , 141 , 151 , 162 -63, 165 , 177 , 193 , 194 , 195 , 197 , 198 , 199 , 203 , 215 , 223 , 228 , 242 , 255 n, 258 , 265 , 267 ;

The Flying Dutchman,21 ;

Götterdämmerung,22 ;

Lohengrin, 22 ;

Die Meistersinger,22 ;

Parsifal, 21 ;

Das Rheingold,22 ;

Der Ring des Nibelungen,5 , 19 , 204 -14;

Siegfried, 4 , 22 ;

Tannhäuser,22 , 134 , 269 ;

Tristan und Isolde,23 ;

Die Walküre,21 .

See also under individual operas

Wagner, Siegfried, 204

Wagner, Wieland, 52 , 55 n, 64 , 208 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 267 , 269

Wagner, Wolfgang, 52 , 56 n, 208 , 209 , 210 , 211 , 267 , 269

"Wagnerites," Wagnerism, 35 , 50 , 68 , 199 , 204 , 208 , 210

Die Walküre (Wagner), 21 , 30 , 205

Walton, William, 130

War and Peace (Tolstoy), 3 -4

Warsaw, opera in, 213

Washington, D.C.:

American National Theatre, 132 -33;

Kennedy Center, 132 ;

opera in, 18 , 134

"The Wasteland" (Eliot), 61

Weaver, William, 172

Weber, Carl Maria von, 17 , 49 , 228 , 244 ;

Euryanthe, 25 ;

Der Freischütz,22 ;

Oberon, 24

Wedekind, Frank, 131

Weikl, Berndt, 123

Weill, Kurt, 134 , 253

Weimer, Eric, 99

Weinstock, Herbert, 161 , 162

Welles, Orson, 219

Welsh National Opera. See Cardiff

Werther (Massenet), 22

West, Rebecca, 201 , 202

West Side Story (Bernstein), 23

Westergaard, Peter, 262

Westheimer, Ruth, 141

Wexford (Ireland) Festival, 27 , 240

What Is Art? (Tolstoy), 3 , 4 -6

Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, 7 , 33

When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen), 131

Where the Wild Things Are (Knussen), 274

Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 274

William Tell [Guillaume Tell ] (Rossini), 102 , 198

William Tell (Schiller), 198

Williams, JoBeth, 133

Wilson, Robert, 136

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 197

Windsor Castle (England), 274

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 25

Wolfit, Donald, 261

Wooster Group (New York), 133

World War I, 207

World War II, 27 , 28 , 69 , 207

Wozzeck (Berg), 22 , 36 , 44 , 270

Y

The Yellow Book (London), 50

Z

Zandonai, Riccardo, 255 n

Zanzegi (Khlebnikov), 133

Zar und Zimmermann (Lortzing), 19 , 22

Der Zarewitsch (Lehár), 24

Die Zauberflöte . See The Magic Flute

Zeffirelli, Franco, 14 , 57 , 124 , 259 , 260 , 267

Zeno, Apostolo, 96

Zimmermann, Jörg, 211

Zlen (Zilina) (Czechoslovakia), 238

Zola, Émile, 6 , 229 -30

Zurich, opera in, 17 , 18 , 28 , 213


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