The Metropolitan Opera stories of the great operas / John W. Freeman ; foreword by James Levine with an introduction by Peter Allen.
Contains the plots of 150 of the world's most popular operas, short biographies of the 72 composers represented, plus background material pertinent to each work.
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| Other title: | Stories of the great operas. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Metropolitan Opera Guild : W.W. Norton & Company,
[1984]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Metropolitan Opera stories of the great operas / |c John W. Freeman ; foreword by James Levine with an introduction by Peter Allen. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Stories of the great operas. | |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Metropolitan Opera Guild : |b W.W. Norton & Company, |c [1984] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1984. | |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Postcard from Morocco / |r Dominick Argento -- |t Vanessa / |r Samuel Barber -- |t Duke Bluebeard's castle / |r Béla Bartók -- |t Fidelio / |r Ludwig van Beethoven -- |t La sonnambula ; |t Norma ; |t I Puritani / |r Vincenzo Bellini -- |t Wozzeck ; |t Lulu / |r Alban Berg -- |t Les Troyens / |r Hector Berlioz -- |t Les pêcheurs de Perles ; |t Carmen / |r Georges Bizet -- |t Regina / |r Marc Blitzstein -- |t Mefistofele / |r Arrigo Boito -- |t Prince Igor / |r Alexander Borodin -- |t Peter Grimes ; |t Albert Herring ; |t Billy Budd ; |t The turn of the screw / |r Benjamin Britten -- |t Louise / |r Gustave Charpentier -- |t Medea / |r Luigi Cherubini -- |t Adriana Lecouvreur / |r Francesco Cilèa -- |t Il matrimonio segreto / |r Domenico Cimarosa -- |t Pelléas et Mélisande / |r Claude Debussy -- |t Lakmé / |r Léo Delibes -- |t Anna Bolena ; |t L'Elisir d'Amore ; |t Lucrezia Borgia ; |t Maria Stuarda ; |t Lucia di Lammermoor ; |t Roberto Devereux ; |t La fille du Régiment ; |t La favorita ; |t Don Pasquale / |r Gaetano Donizetti -- |t Rusalka / |r Antonín Dvořák -- |t Martha / |r Friedrich van Flotow -- |t Susannah / |r Carlisle Floyd -- |t Porgy and Bess / |r George Gershwin -- |t Bomarzo / |r Alberto Ginastera -- |t Andrea Chénier / |r Umberto Giordano -- |t Ruslan and Ludmila / |r Mikhail Glinka -- |t Orfeo ed Euridice / |r Christoph Willibald von Gluck -- |t Faust ; |t Roméo et Juliette / |r Charles Franc̦ois Gounod -- |t Giulio Cesare / |r George Frideric Handel -- |t Mathis der Maler / |r Paul Hindemith -- |t Hänsel und Gretel / |r Engelbert Humperdinck -- |t Jenůfa ; |t Kát'a Kabanová ; |t The Makropoulos case / |r Leoš Janáček -- |t Treemonisha / |r Scott Joplin -- |t Die tote stadt / |r Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- |t Die Lustige Witwe / |r Franz Lehár -- |t Pagliacci / |r Ruggero Leoncavallo -- |t Cavalleria Rusticana ; |t L'Amico Fritz / |r Pietro Mascagni -- 0 |t Manon ; |t Werther ; |t Thaïs ; |t Cendrillon / |r Jules Massenet -- |t The Medium ; |t Amahl and the night visitors / |r Gian Carlo Menotti -- |t Les Huguenots ; |t Le Prophète / |r Giacomo Meyerbeer -- |t L'Amore dei Tre Re / |r Italo Montemezzi -- |t Orfeo (La Favola d'Orfeo) ; |t L'incoronazione di Poppea / |r Claudio Monteverdi -- |t The ballad of Baby Doe / |r Douglas Moore -- |t Idomeneo, Rè Di Creta ; |t Die Entführung aus dem Serail ; |t Le Nozze di Figaro ; |t Don Giovanni ; |t Così Fan Tutte ; |t La Clemenza di Tito ; |t Die Zauberflöte / |r Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- |t Mary, Queen of Scots / |r Thea Musgrave -- |t Boris Godunov / |r Modest Mussorgsky -- |t Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor / |r Otto Nicolai -- |t Les Contes d'Hoffmann / |r Jacques Offenbach -- |t La Serva Padrona / |r Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- |t La Gioconda / |r Amilcare Ponchielli -- |t Les Mamelles de tirésias ; |t Dialogues des Carmélites ; |t La Voix Humaine / |r Francis Poulenc -- |t The love for three oranges ; |t War and peace / |r Sergei Prokofiev -- |t Manon Lescaut ; |t La Bohème ; |t Tosca ; |t Madama Butterfly ; |t La Fanciulla del West ; |t La Rondine ; |t Il Trittico: Il Tabarro & Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi ; |t Turandot / |r Giacomo Puccini -- |t Dido and Aeneas / |r Henry Purcell -- |t L'Heure Espagnole ; |t L'enfant et les Sortilèges / |r Maurice Ravel -- |t Le Coq d'Or / |r Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- |t L'Italiana in Algeri ; |t Il Barbiere di Siviglia ; |t La Cenerentola ; |t Semiramide / |r Gioacchino Rossini -- |t Samson et Dalila / |r Camille Saint-Saëns -- |t Moses und Aron / |r Arnold Schoenberg -- |t The Bartered bride / |r Bedřich Smetana -- |t Die fledermaus / |r Johann Strauss -- |t Salome ; |t Elektra ; |t Der Rosenkavalier ; |t Ariadne auf Naxos ; |t Die Frau ohne Schatten ; |t Arabella ; |t Capriccio / |r Richard Strauss -- |t The Rake's progress / |r Igor Stravinsky -- |t Eugene Onegin ; |t Pique Dame / |r Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- |t Mignon / |r Ambroise Thomas -- |t The mother of us all / |r Virgil Thomson -- |t The midsummer marriage / |r Michael Tippett -- |t Nabucco ; |t Ernani ; |t Macbeth ; |t Luisa Miller ; |t Rigoletto ; |t Il Trovatore ; |t La Traviata ; |t I Vespri Siciliani ; |t Simon Boccanegra ; |t Un Ballo in Maschera ; |t La Forza del Destino ; |t Don Carlo ; |t Aida ; |t Otello ; |t Falstaff / |r Giuseppe Verdi -- |t Der Fliegende Holländer ; |t Tannhäuser ; |t Lohengrin ; |t Tristan und Isolde ; |t Die Meistersinger von Nürnber ; |t Der ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung ; |t Parsifal / |r Richard Wagner -- |t Der Freischütz / |r Carl Maria von Weber -- |t Die Dreigroschenoper ; |t Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny / |r Kurt Weill -- |t Francesca da Rimini / |r Riccardo Zandonai. |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Levine, James, |d 1943-2021 |e writer of foreword. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Allen, Peter, |d 1920-2016, |e writer of introduction. | |
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