Preferred Citation: Littlejohn, David. The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft887008cv/


 

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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


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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


 

Preferred Citation: Littlejohn, David. The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft887008cv/