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Stories From The Operas

Stories From The Operas

by Gladys DAVIDSON ( - )

"Owing to the appreciation which has been accorded to my three series of "Stories from the Operas," it has been decided to re-issue the collection in one volume, and to include in this additional stories of new and popular operas recently produced in England.The plan of the work, as before, is to present all the incidents of each libretto in the clear, readable form of a short story; and it is hoped that the combined volume will continue to prove of interest, not only to opera-goers but to all lovers of dramatic tales. The three volumes have been entirely reset and re-collated in a manner which it is hoped will make them easier for reference." - Summary by Gladys Davidson


AUBER – Fra Diavolo

BALFE – The Bohemian Girl

BEETHOVEN – Fidelio

BELLINI – I Puritani

BELLINI – La Sonnambula

BENEDICT – The Lily of Killarney

BIZET – Carmen

DONIZETTI – Lucia di Lammermoor

DONIZETTI – Lucrezia Borgia

DONIZETTI – The Daughter of the Regiment (La Figlia del Reggimento)

FLOTOW – Martha

GOUNOD – Faust

GOUNOD – Philemon and Baucis

GOUNOD – Romeo and Juliet

HALEVY – The Jewess (La Juive)

HUMPERDINCK – Die Konigskinder (The Kingly Children)

LEONCAVALLO – I Pagliacci (The Mountebanks)

MASCAGNI – Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry)

MEYERBEER – Robert the Devil (Robert le Diable)

MEYERBEER – Star of the North (L’Etoile du Nord)

MEYERBEER – The Huguenots (Les Huguenots)

MOZART – Don Juan (Don Giovanni)

MOZART – The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro)

NICOLAI – The Merry Wives of Windsor

OFFENBACH – The Tales of Hoffman (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)

PUCCINI – La Boheme

PUCCINI – Madam Butterfly

PUCCINI – Manon Lescaut

ROSSINI – The Barber of Seville (Il Barbier di Seviglia)

Short Biographies of the Composers

STRAUSS – Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer)

STRAUSS – Elektra

THOMAS – Mignon

TSCHAIKOVSKY – Eugine Onegin

VERDI – Aida

VERDI – Ernani

VERDI – Il Trovatore, or the Gipsy’s Vengeance

VERDI – La Traviata

VERDI – Othello

VERDI – Rigoletto

VERDI – The Masked Ball (Un Ballo in Maschera)

WAGNER – Lohengrin

WAGNER – Parsifal

WAGNER – Part II The Valkyrie (Die Walkure)

WAGNER – Part III Siegfried

WAGNER – Part IV The Twilight of the Gods (Die Gotterdammerung)

WAGNER – Tannhauser

WAGNER – The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollander)

WAGNER – The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg)

WAGNER – The Nibulungs’ Ring (Der Ring der Nibelungen) Part I The Rhinegold (Das Rheingold)

WAGNER – Tristan and Isolda

WALLACE – Lurline

WALLACE – Maritana

WALTERSHAUSEN – Colonel Chabert (Oberst Chabert)

WOLF-FERRARI – The Jewels of the Madonna