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 ;
Addison, Joseph, 2
Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea), 19 , 22
Die äegyptische Helena (R. Strauss), 246
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
Aldeburgh (England), 274 ;
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
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
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
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
Ariosto, Ludovico, 69 , 107 -19
Aristotle, 95
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
Baglioni, Antonio, 121
Baker, Janet, 104
Bakst, Leon, 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
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 ;
Basel (Switzerland), opera in, 209
Ba-ta-Clan (Offenbach), 228
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 ;
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, 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 ;
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
Berhoz, Hector, 2 , 126 n, 159 , 176 , 244 , 255 n;
La Damnation de Faust,189 ;
Les Troyens,35 -36
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
Billington, Michael, 64
Billy Budd (Britten), 167 , 273
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
Boito, Arrigo, 36 , 45 , 216 , 217 , 218 , 219 , 245 , 253 ;
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 ;
Boston Globe,259
Boublil, Alain, 177
Boucher, François, 111
Boulez, Pierre, 1 , 58 , 62 n, 212
Bowman, James, 259
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;
Gloriana, 273 ;
A Midsummer Night's Dream,24 , 255 n, 256 -59, 260 , 273 ;
Owen Wingrave,273 ;
The Rape of Lucretia,273 ;
The Turn of the Screw,23 , 273 , 274
Brno (Czechoslovakia), 235 , 236 , 237 , 238 , 242 ;
Brno Theatre, 235 ;
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Coutaud, Lucien, 270
Covent Garden. See London.
Coventry (England) Cathedral, 274
Crespin, Régine, 229
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
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 176
Czechoslovakia, opera in, 19 , 235 , 236 , 238
D
Dafne (Rinuccini), 79
Dahlhaus, Carl, 86 n
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
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
Lakmé,25
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
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 ;
Daughter of the Regiment,22 ;
Don Pasquale,22 ;
L'elisir d'amore,21 ;
Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo,112 ;
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
Drouet, Juliette, 174
Dryden, John, 80
Dudley, William, 213
Dufrenne, Mikel, 55 n
Duisberg (Germany), Deutsche Oper am Rhem [shared with Düsseldorf], 30 , 237 ;
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
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
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
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 (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
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
Franco-Prussian War, 231 , 232
Frankenstein, Alfred, 272
Frankfurt, 195 ;
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
Der Freischütz (Weber), 22 , 26
Freni, Mirella, 18
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
Gamerra, Giovanni de, 96
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
Gazzaniga, Giuseppe, 124
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
Gielgud, John, 257
Gilbert, W. S. and Sullivan, Arthur, 24 , 25 , 131 , 134 , 178 , 224 , 229 , 253 ;
The Gondoliers,131 ;
La Gioconda (Ponchielli), 23 , 25 , 26 , 68 , 174 , 177 , 178 , 180 , 181 , 182
Giordano, Umberto, 22 ;
Giotto [Giotto di Bordone], 274
Giulini, Carlo Maria, 127
Giulio Cesare (Handel), 14 , 23 , 98 , 102 , 131 , 134 , 135 , 136
I giuramento (Mercadante), 177
Glasgow, opera in, 237 ;
Glasgow Herald,242 n
Glass, Philip, 36 ;
Satyagraha, 27
Gloriana (Britten), 273
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von, 24 , 26 , 27 , 39 , 42 , 49 , 80 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 96 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 106 , 228 , 257 ;
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
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 ;
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
Grotowski, Jerzy, 136
Grout, Donald, 99
The Guardian (Manchester and London), 64
Guercino [Giovanni Francesco Barbieri], 111
Tyrone Guthrie Theatre. See Minneapolis
The Gypsy Baron (J. Strauss Jr.), 17
The Gypsy Princess (Csárd ásfürstin ) (Kálmán), 23
H
Haar, James, 113
Hadley, Jerry, 272
Hagemann, Carl, 247
The Hague, opera in, 246
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;
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 ;
Giulio Cesare,14 , 23 , 98 , 102 , 131 , 134 , 135 ;
Orlando, 102 , 112 , 116 , 117,134 , 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
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 ;
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
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 ;
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
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 ;
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
Fetonte, 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
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
Kleiber, Carlos, 58
Das kleine Mahagonny (Brecht/Weill), 134
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
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
Kreisleriana (Schumann), 228
"The Kreutzer Sonata" (Tolstoy), 6
Krolloper. See Berlin
Kubelik, Rafael, 236 , 238 , 240
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
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
M
MacArthur Foundation (New York), 132
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 131 , 264
Macbeth (Verdi), 13 , 22 , 26 , 255 -56
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 ,
141 , 183 , 266 , 268 , 269 , 270 , 274
The Magic Mountain (Mann), 78
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
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 ;
Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame,190 ;
Marie-Madeleine,190 ;
La Navarraise,190 ;
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
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
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 ;
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
The Mikado (Sullivan), 19 , 23 , 134 , 135 , 229
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
Minneapolis (Minn.):
Center Opera Company, 271 ;
Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, 132
Le Miracle de Notre-Dame (Honegger), 190
Mireille (Gounod), 19
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
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
Morbid Jealousy and Murder (Mowat), 220
Morella, Francesco, 121
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 ;
The Magic Flute,21 , 134 , 268 , 274 -75;
The Marriage of Figaro,21 , 122 , 134 , 137 -54, 268 ;
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
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
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
New Criticism, 39 -40
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,176
New Oxford Companion to Music,80
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 ;
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;
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, Margaret, 152
Prince Igor (Borodin), 24
Princeton University, 264
Pritchard, John, 58
Prokofiev, Sergei, 58 ;
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 ;
Gianni Schicchi,23 ;
Madame Butterfly,21 , 42 n, 45 , 63 ;
Manon Lescaut,23 ;
La rondine, 24 ;
Tosca, ii-iii, xvii , 21 , 41 , 42 n, 68 , 166 ;
See also under individual operas
Purcell, Henry, 39 , 40 , 70 , 258 ;
Purchase (N.Y.): PepsiCo Summerfare, xiii , 126 n, 133 , 134 , 138 , 146,147 , 148 , 155
I puritani (Bellini), 269
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
The Ghost Sonata,27 ;
Lear, 37 , 236 , 256 , 261 -62, 263 ,264
Reni, Guido, 111
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:
Sadko, 25
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
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
Romanticism, 166 n, 173 -74, 176 , 178 , 193 , 196 , 227 , 231
"Romanticism and Opera" (Oliver), 182
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
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 ;
The Siege of Corinth,94 ;
Il signor Bruschino,23 ;
Rostova, Natasha (character in War and Peace ), 3
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 2
Rubens, Peter Paul, 111
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
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 81
Sassuolo (Italy), 111
Satie, Erik, 265
Saturday Night Live (U.S. television show), 141
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
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
Second Empire (France, 1852-1870), 174 , 228 , 229 , 230
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
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
Il signor Bruschino (Rossini), 23
Silja, Anja, 241
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
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
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
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
Talvela, Martti, 18
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 61
Tancredi (Rossini), 27 , 94 , 102
Tannhäuser (Wagner), 22 , 53 , 63 , 134 , 135 , 268 , 269
Taylor, Paul, 266
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
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
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, 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
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
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 ;
Ernani, 172 , 177 , 178 , 181 , 182 ;
La forza del destino,22 ;
Luisa Miller,24 ;
Otello, 21 , 60 n, 215 -23, 255 -56;
Rigoletto, 21 , 176 , 177 , 179 , 180 , 182 ;
Simon Boccanegra,22 ;
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
Vicenza (Italy), 125 ;
Teatro Olimpico, 266 ;
Villa Valmarana, 111
Vick, Graham, 53
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
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 ;
Orlando furioso,27 , 94 , 112 , 115 , 116
Voice:
emotional power of the singing voice, 73 -78, 167 ;
in the role of Norma, 156 , 157 , 166 , 170 -71;
voice lovers, 35 , 67 , 68 -69, 76
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 108 , 192
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;
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 ;
"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
Weimer, Eric, 99
Welles, Orson, 219
Welsh National Opera. See Cardiff
Werther (Massenet), 22
West Side Story (Bernstein), 23
Westergaard, Peter, 262
Westheimer, Ruth, 141
Wexford (Ireland) Festival, 27 , 240
What Is Art? (Tolstoy), 3 , 4 -6
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
Zurich, opera in, 17 , 18 , 28 , 213
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