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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

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