Beautiful Beasts

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Introduction to the first edition -- Introduction to the second edition -- Explanatory notes -- Acknowledgments -- Operas by title -- Operas by composer -- Entries -- Indexes : Index of librettists ; Index of arias ; Index of one-act operas -- About the author.;L'Abandon d'Ariane (Milhaud) ; The abandonment of Ariadne (Milhaud) ; The abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart) ; The abduction of Europa (Milhaud) ; Abu Hassan (Weber) ; Acis and Galatea (Handel) ; Admeto (Handel) ; Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilèa) ; Adriana Mater (Saariaho) ; L'Africaine (Meyerbeer) ; The African woman (Meyerbeer) ; Agrippina (Handel) ; Die Ägyptische Helena (Strauss) ; Aïda (Verdi) ; Akhnaten (Glass) ; Albert Herring (Britten) ; Alceste (Gluck) ; Alcina (Handel) ; Alexandr Twice (Martinů) ; Alfonso and Estrella (Schubert) ; Alfonso and Estrella (Schubert) ; Alzira (Verdi) ; Amahl and the night visitors (Menotti) ; Amelia al Ballo (Menotti) ; Amelia goes to the ball (Menotti) ; L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni) ; L'Amore dei Tre Re (Montemazzi) ; L'Amore Medico (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Andrea Chénier (Giordano) ; Angélique (Ibert) ; Aniara (Blomdahl) ; Anna Bolena (Donizetti) ; Antony and Cleopatra (Barber) ; The Apothecary (Haydn) ; Arabella (Strauss) ; Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss) ; Ariadne on Naxos (Strauss) ; Ariane and Bluebeard (Dukas) ; Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Dukas) ; Ariodante (Handel) ; Arlecchino (Busoni) ; Armida (Haydn) ; Armide (Gluck) ; Armistice Day (Strauss) ; Aroldo (Verdi) ; Ascanio in Alba (Mozart) ; The Aspern Papers (Argento) ; Assassination in the Cathedral (Pizzetti) ; Assassinio nella Cattedrale (Pizzetti) ; At the Boar's Head (Holst) ; Atalanta (Handel) ; Attila (Verdi) ; Atys (Lully) ; Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Weill) ; Ba-ta-clan (Offenbach) ; The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore) ; The Ban of Love (Wagner) ; The Bandits (Verdi) ; The Barber of Bagdad (Cornelius) ; The Barber of Seville (Paisiello) ; The Barber of Seville (Rossini) ; Der Barbier von Bagdad (Cornelius) ; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello) ; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) ; The Bartered Bride (Smetana) ; Die Bassariden (Henze) ; The Bassarids (Henze) ; Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart) ; Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart) ; The Bat (Strauss Jr.) ; La Battaglia di Legnano (Verdi) ; The Battle of Legnano (Verdi) ; The Bear (Walton) ; Béatrice (Messager) ; Béatrice and Bénédict (Berlioz) ; Beatrice di Tenda (Bellini) ; Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz) ; Beatrice of Tenda (Bellini) ; Beatrix Cenci (Ginastera) ; The Beautiful Helen (Offenbach) ; Beauty and the Beast (Giannini) ; The Beggar Student (Millöcker) ; The Beggar's Opera (Pepusch) ; La Belle Hélène (Offenbach) ; Beltane Fire (Strauss) ; Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz) ; Bertha (Rorem) ; Der Besuch der alten Dame (Einem) ; Betrothal in a Convent (Prokofiev) ; Der Bettelstudent (Millöcker) ; Billy Budd (Britten) ; The Black Domino (Auber) ; Bluebeard's Castle (Bartók) ; Boccaccio (Suppé) ; La Bohème (Leoncavallo) ; La Bohème (Puccini) ; The Bohemian (Leoncavallo) ; The Bohemian (Puccini) ; The Bohemian Girl (Balfe) ; Bomarzo (Ginastera) ; The Boor (Argento) ; Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) ; Brandenburgers in Bohemia (Smetana) ; Braniboři v Čechách (Smetana) ; The Breasts of Tirésias (Poulenc) ; The Bridge of Sighs (Offenbach) ; A Brief Life (de Falla) ; The Brigands (Offenbach) ; Les Brigands (Offenbach) ; Brother Devil (Auber) ; The Burning Fiery Furnace (Britten) ; Calisto (Cavalli) ; La Calisto (Cavalli) ; La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini) ; La Campanello Sommersa (Respighi) ; Il Campanello (Donizetti) ; Il Campiello (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Candide (Bernstein) ; Capriccio (Strauss) ; I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini) ; The Capulets and the Montagues (Bellini) ; Cardillac (Hindemith) ; Carmen (Bizet) ; Carry Nation (Moore) ; Casanova's Homecoming (Argento) ; Castor and Pollux (Rameau) ; Castor et Pollux (Rameau) ; Caterina Cornaro (Donizetti) ; The Cavalieri di Ekebù (Zandonai) ; Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) ; La Cena delle Beffe (Giordano) ; Cendrillon (Massenet) ; La Cenerentola (Rossini) ; Čert a Káča (Dvořák) ; The Child and the Spells (Ravel) ; The Christmas Rose (Bridge) ; The Cid (Massenet) ; Le Cid (Massenet) ; Čím človĕk žije (Martinů) ; Cinderella (Massenet) ; Cinderella (Rossini) ; The Clemency of Titus (Mozart) ; La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart) ; Cleopatra (Massenet) ; Cléopâtre (Massenet) ; The Cloak (Puccini) ; The Clowns (Leoncavallo) ; Cold Sassy Tree (Floyd) ; The Combat of Tancred and Clorinda (Monteverdi) ; Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Monteverdi) ; Comedy on the Bridge (Martinů) ; The Comic Duel (Paisiello) ; Le Comte Ory (Rossini) ; The Consul (Menotti) ; Le Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) ; Le Convenienze ed Inconvenieze Teatrali (Donizetti) [under Viva la Mamma] ; Coq d'Or (Rimsky-Korsakov) [under the Golden Cockerel] ; The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi) ; Der Corregidor (Wolf) ; The Corsair (Verdi) ; Il Corsaro (Verdi) ; Così fan tutte (Mozart) ; The Count Ory (Rossini) ; Countess Maritza (Kálmán) ; The Cricket on the Hearth (Goldmark) ; The Crucible (Ward) ; Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Martínez) ; Cumberland Fair (Wilder) ; The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček) ; Dalibor (Smetana) ; La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz) ; The Damnation of Faust (Berlioz) ; The Dangerous Liaisons (Susa) ; Daphne (Strauss) ; The Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti) ; The Dead City (Korngold) ; Dead Man Walking (Heggie) ; Death in Venice (Britten) ; Dèbora and Jaéle (Pizzetti) ; A Defective Education (Chabrier) ; Le Dernier Sauvage (Menotti) ; Des Esels Schatten (Stauss) ; The Desert Song (Romberg) ; Destiny (Janáček) ; The Devil and Daniel Webster (Moore) ; The Devil and Kate (Dvořák) ; The Devil Take Her (Benjamin) ; The Devils of Loudun (Penderecki) ; Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc) ; Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc) ; Dido and Æneas (Purcell) ; Le Docteur Miracle (Bizet) ; Doctor Atomic (Adams) ; Doctor Cupid (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Doctor Faust (Busoni) ; Doctor Miracle (Bizet) ; Doktor Faust (Busoni) ; Dom Sébastien (Donizetti) ; Domino Noir (Auber) ; Don Carlo (Verdi) ; Don Giovanni (Mozart) ; Don Pasquale (Donizetti) ; Don Quichotte (Massenet) ; Don Rodrigo (Ginastera) ; The Donkey's Shadow (Strauss) ; La Donna del Lago (Rossini) ; Le Donne Curiose (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Double Trouble (Mohaupt) ; Down in the Valley (Weill) ; The Dream of Scipio (Mozart) ; Die Dreigroschenoper (Weill) ; I Due Foscari (Verdi) ; Il Duello Comico (Paisiello) ; The Duenna (Prokofiev) [under Betrothal in a Convent] ; Dvakrát Alexandr (Martinů) ; Edgar (Puccini) ; The Egyptian Helen (Strauss) ; Einstein on the Beach (Glass) ; El Retablo de Maese Pedro (de Falla) ; Elegie für junge Liebende (Henze) ; Elegy for Young Lovers (Henze) ; Elektra (Strauss) ; Elisabetta (Rossini) ; E'Elisir d'Amore (Donizetti) ; The Elixir of Love (Donizetti) ; The End of a World (Henze) ; Das Ende einer Welt (Henze) ; L'Enfant et lest Sortilèges (Ravel) ; L'Enfant Prodigue (Debussy) ; Die Englische Katze (Henze) ; The English Cat (Henze) ; L'Enlèvement d'Europe (Milhaud) ; Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart) ; Ernani (Verdi) ; Erwartung (Schönberg) ; Esclarmonde (Massenet) ; Esther (Weisgall) ; Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) ; Euridice (Peri) ; Euryanthe (Weber) ; Evgeny Onegin (Tchaikovsky) ; The Excursions of Mr. Brouček on the Moon and in the 15th century (Janáček) ; Expectation (Schönberg) ; The Fable of Orfeo (Monteverdi) ; The Fair of Sorochintsy (Musorgsky) ; The Fairies (Puccini) ; The Fairies (Wagner) ; The Fairy Queen (Purcell) ; The Faithful Shepherd (Handel) ; The Fallen Woman (Verdi) ; Falstaff (Verdi) ; La Fanciulla del West (Puccini) ; Faust (Gounod) ; La Favola d'Orfeo (Monteverdi) ; The Favorite (Donizetti) ; La Favorite (Donizetti) ; Fedora (Giordano) ; Die Feen (Wagner) ; Feurersnot (Strauss) ; La Fiamma (Respighi) ; Fidelio (Beethoven) ; Fierrabras (Schubert) ; The Fiery Angel (Prokofiev) ; Fiesta (Milhaud) ; La Fille du Régiment (Donizetti) ; La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart) ; La Finta Semplice (Mozart) ; The First Emperor (Dun) ; The Flame (Respighi) ; Die Fledermaus (Strauss Jr.) ; Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner) ; Flight (Dove) ; A Flowering Tree (Adams) ; The Flying Dutchman (Wagner) ; The Force of Destiny (Verdi) ; The Foreign Woman (Bellini) ; The Forest (Smyth) ; La Forza del Destino (Verdi) ; The Four Rustics (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Four Saints in Three Acts (Thomson) ; The Four-Note Opera (Johnson) ; The Fox (Musto) ; Fra Diavolo (Auber) ; Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai) ; Francesca of Rimini (Rakhmaninov) ; Francesca of Rimini (Zandonai) ; Francheska da Rimini (Rakhmaninov) ; Lo Frate 'nnamorato (Pergolesi) ; Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Strauss) ; The Free Shooter (Weber) ; Der Freischütz (Weber) ; Friedenstag (Strauss) ; Friend Fritz (Mascagni) ; From One Day to the Next (Schönberg) ; From the House of the Dead (Janáček).;You are getting ready for a performance of Donizetti?s L?elisir d?amore and you have a few questions. How many clarinets are in the orchestra? How many orchestra members appear onstage? How many different sets are there? How long does the opera typically run? What are the key arias? Are any special effects or ballet choreography required? Who owns the rights? Where was it premiered? What are the leading and supporting roles?;Oberto (Verdi) ; Obruchenie v Monastyre (Prokofiev) ; Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky) ; Of Mice and Men (Floyd) ; Ognenny Angel (Prokofiev) ; The Old Maid and the Thief (Menotti) ; Olympie (Spontini) ; A One-Day Reign (Verdi) ; The Oracle (Leoni) ; L'Oracolo (Leoni) ; Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) ; Orlando (Handel) ; Orlando Furioso (Vivaldi) ; Orleanskaya Deva (Tchaikovsky) ; Ormindo (Cavalli) ; L'Ormindo (Cavalli) ; Orontea (Cesti) ; L'Orontea (Cesti) ; Orphée aux Enfers (Offenbach) ; Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck) ; Orpheus and Eurydice (Gluck) ; Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) ; Osud (Janáček) ; Otello (Rossini) ; Otello (Verdi) ; Owen Wingrave (Britten) ; Paganini (Lehár) ; Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) ; Palestrina (Pfitzner) ; Paradise Lost (Penderecki) ; Parisian Life (Offenbach) ; Parisina d'Este (Donizetti) ; Parisina of Este (Donizetti) ; Parsifal (Wagner) ; Il Pastor Fido (Handel) ; Paul Bunyan (Britten) ; Le Pauvre Matelot (Milhaud) ; The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) ; Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Bizet) ; Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy) ; Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy) ; Pénélope (Fauré) ; Périchole (Offenbach) ; La Périchole (Offenbach) ; Peter Grimes (Britten) ; Phaëton (Lully) ; Il Piccolo Marat (Mascagni) ; La Pietra del Paragone (Rossini) ; Pikovaya Dama (Tchaikovsky) ; Pimpinone (Telemann) ; Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) [under The Queen of Spades] ; Il Parata (Bellini) ; The Pirate (Bellini) ; The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan) ; The Poacher (Lortzing) ; The Poisoned Kiss (Williams) ; Les Pont des Soupirs (Offenbach) ; The Poor Sailor (Milhaud) ; Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) ; Postcard from Morocco (Argento) ; The Postilion of Lonjumeau (Adam) ; Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam) ; Il Postino (Catán) ; The Postman (Catán) ; The Postman Always Rings Twice (Paulus) ; The Pretender Gardener (Mozart) ; The Pretended Simpleton (Mozart) ; The Pretty Maid of Perth (Bizet) ; Il Prigioniero (Dallapiccola) ; Příhody Lišky Bystroušky (Janáček) ; Prince Igor (Borodin) ; The Princes Khovansky (Musorgsky) ; The Princess and the Pea (Toch) ; Die Prinzessin auf der Ebse (Toch) ; The Prisoner (Dallapiccola) ; Prodaná Nevĕsta (Smetana) ; The Prodigal Son (Britten) ; The Prodigal Son (Debussy) ; Prometheus (Orff) ; The Prophet (Meyerbeer) ; The Protagonist (Weill) ; Der Protagonist (Weill) ; The Protagonist (Weill) ; Punainen (Viiva) ; Purgatory (Weisgall) ; I Puritani (Bellini) ; The Puritans (Bellini) ; I Quattro Rusteghi (Wolf-Ferrari) ; The Queen of Sheba (Goldmark) ; The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) ; A Quiet Place (Bernstein) ; Radamisto (Handel) ; The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky) ; The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) ; Il Re Pastore (Mozart) ; Řecké pašije (Martinů) ; The Red Line (Sallinen) ; The Return of Ulysses to his Country (Montiverdi) ; Das Rheingold (Wagner) ; The Rhinegold (Wagner) ; Riders to the Sea (Williams) ; Rienzi (Wagner) ; Rigoletto (Verdi) ; Rinaldo (Handel) ; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill) ; Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Monteverdi) ; Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer) ; Robert the Devil (Meyerbeer) ; Roberto Devereux (Donizetti) ; Le Roi d'Ys (Lalo) ; Le Roi Malgré Lui (Chabrier) ; Romeo and Juliet (Gounod) ; Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) ; La Rondine (Puccini) ; Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) ; Le Rossignol (Stravinsky) [under The Nightingale] ; The Royal Children (Humperdinck) ; The Ruby (Joio) ; Rusalka (Dvořák) ; Russlan and Ludmilla (Glinka) ; Russlan i Ludmilla (Glinka) ; Rustic Chivalry (Mascagni) ; Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Saffo (Pacini) ; Saint Francis of Assis (Messiaen) ; Saint François d'Assise (Messiaen) ; The Saint of Bleeker Street (Menotti) ; Salome (Strauss) ; Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saëns) ; Samson et Delila (Saint-Saëns) ; Sapho (Gounod) ; Sapho (Massenet) ; Sappho (Gounod) ; Sappho (Massenet) ; Sappho (Pacini) ; Šárka (Janáček) ; Satyagraha (Glass) ; La Scala di Seta (Rossini) ; Scaramouche (Sibelius) ; The Scarf (Hoiby) ; Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) ; School for Wives (Liebermann) ; Schwanda the Bagpiper (Weinberger) [under Švanda Dudák] ; Die Schweigsame Frau (Strauss) ; The Second Hurricane (Copland) ; The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa) ; Il Segreto di Susanne (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Semirama (Respighi) ; Semiramide (Rossini) ; Serse (Handel) ; La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi) ; The Shepherd King (Mozart) ; The Shepherd of the Delectable Mountains (Williams) ; The Sicilian Vespers (Verdi) ; Le Siège de Corinthe (Rossini) ; The Siege of Corinth (Rossini) ; Siegfried (Wagner) ; Il Signor Bruschino (Rossini) ; The Silent Woman (Strauss) ; The Silken Ladder (Rossini) ; Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) ; Sir John in Love (Williams) ; Sister Angelica (Puccini) ; Six Characters in Search of an Author (Weisgall) ; Skazani o Nevidimom Grade Kitezhe i Deve Fevrony (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Skazka o Tsare Saltane (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Skupoi Rytsar' (Rakhmaninov) ; The Sleepwalker (Bellini) ; Snegurochka (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Il Sogno di Scipione (Mozart) ; Die Soldaten (Zimmermann) ; The Soldier's Tale (Stravinsky) ; The Soldiers (Zimmermann) ; Solovey (Stravinsky) ; La Sonnambula (Bellini) ; Sorochinskaya Yarmarka (Musorgsky) ; The Spanish Hour (Ravel) ; The Spanish Lady (Elgar) ; Lo Speziale (Haydn) ; Die Spieler (Shostakovich) ; The Square (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Stiffelio (Verdi) ; The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) ; Strandrecht (Smyth) ; La Straniera (Bellini) ; Street Scene (Weill) ; A Streetcar Named Desire (Previn) ; The Studen Prince (Romberg) ; Summer and Smoke (Hoiby) ; Sunday Excursion (Wilder) ; The Sunken Bell (Respighi) ; Suor Angelica (Puccini) ; Susanna's Secret (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Susannah (Floyd) ; Švanda Dudák (Weinberger) ; Švanda the Bagpiper (Weinberger) ; The Swallow (Puccini) ; Il Tabarro (Puccini) ; The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; A Tale of Two Cities (Benjamin) ; The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) ; Tamerlano (Handel) ; The Taming of the Shrew (Giannini) ; Tancredi (Rossini) ; Tannhäuser (Wagner) ; Tartuffe (Mechem) ; The Telephone (Menotti) ; The Tempest (Adès) ; The Tempest (Hoiby) ; The Tender Land (Copland) ; Die Teufel von Loudun (Penderecki) ; Thaïs (Massenet) ; The Thieving Magpie (Rossini) ; Three Decembers (Heggie) ; The Three Penny Opera (Weill) ; Tiefland (d'Albert) ; To Cross the Face of the Moon (Martínez) ; Tom Jones (Philidor) ; Tosca (Puccini) ; Die Tot Stadt (Korngold) ; The Touchstone (Rossini) ; Transformations (Susa) ; La Traviata (Verdi) ; Treemonisha (Joplin) ; Tristan and Isolde (Wagner) ; Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) ; Troilus and Cressida (Walton) ; The Trojans (Berlioz) ; The Troubadour (Verdi) ; Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)[under A Quiet Place] ; Il Trovatore (Verdi) ; Les Troyens (Berlioz) ; Tsar and Carpenter (Lortzing) ; The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken (Weill) ; The Tsar's Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Tsarskaya Nevesta (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Turandot (Busoni) ; Turandot (Puccini) ; Il Turco in Italia (Rossini) ; The Turk in Italy (Rossini) ; The Turn of the Shrew (Britten) ; The Twilight of the Gods (Wagner) ; The Two Foscari (Verdi) ; Ulisse (Dallapiccola) ; Ulysses (Dallapiccola) ; Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) ; Un Giorno di Regno (Verdi) ; Un Re in Ascolto (Berio) ; Une Education Manquée (Chabrier) ; The Valkyrie (Wagner) ; The Vampire (Marschner) ; Der Vampyr (Marschner) ; Vanessa (Barber) ; Vĕc Makropulsos (Janáček) ; Les Vêpres Siciliennes (Verdi) ; Veselohra no mostě (Martinů) ; I Vespri Siciliani (Verdi) ; The Vestal (Spontini) ; La Vestale (Spontini) ; Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini) ; La Vida Breve (de Falla) ; La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach) ; Viennese Blood (Strauss Jr.) ; A View from the Bridge (Bolcom) ; A Village Romeo and Juliet (Delius) ; Le Villi (Puccini) ; Violanta (Korngold) ; The Visit of the Old Lady (Einem) ; The Visitation (Schuller) ; Viva la Mamma (Donizetti) ; Voina i Mir (Prokofiev) ; La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) ; Volo di Notte (Dallapiccola) ; Volpone (Musto) ; Von Heute auf Morgen (Schönberg) ; The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (Argento) ; The Voyage to Reims (Rossini) ; Výlet pana Broučka do Měsíce / Výlet pana Broučka do XV století (Janáček) ; Der Wald (Smyth) ; Die Walküre (Wagner) ; La Wally (Catalani) ; The Wandering Scholar (Holst) ; War and Peace (Prokofiev) ; A Water Bird Talk (Argento) ; Werther (Massenet) ; What Men Live By (Martinů) ; Where the Wild Things Are (Knussen) ; Wiener Blut (Strauss Jr.) ; The Wife of Martin Guerre (Bergsma) ; Der Wildschütz (Lortzing) ; William Ratcliff (Mascagni) ; William Tell (Rossini) ; Willie Stark (Floyd) ; The Wings of the Dove (Moore) ; The Wise Woman (Orff) ; The Woman without a Shadow (Strauss) ; Women Are Like That (Mozart) ; The World on the Moon (Haydn) ; Wozzeck (Berg) ; The Wreckers (Smyth) ; Wuthering Heights (Floyd) ; Wuthering Heights (Herrmann) ; Xerxes (Handel) ; Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan) ; Yerma (Villa-Lobos) ; The Young Lord (Henze) ; Z Mrtvého Domu (Janáček) ; Der Zar Lässt sich Photographieren (Weill) ; Zar und Zimmermann (Lortzing) ; Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) ; Zazà (Leoncavallo) ; Zhizn' za Tsarya (Glinka) ; Die Zigeunerbaron (Strauss Jr.) ; Zolotoi Petuschok (Rimsky-Korsakov).;The Gambler (Prokofiev) ; The Gamblers (Shostakovich) ; A Game of Chance (Barab) ; La Gazza Ladra (Rossini) ; The Ghosts of Versailles (Corigliano) ; Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) ; La Gioconda (Ponchielli) ; I Gioielli della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Giovanna d'Arco (Verdi) ; The Girl from Navarre (Massenet) ; The Girl from the Golden West (Puccini) ; Giulio Cesare (Handel) ; Gloriana (Britten) ; Die Glückliche Hand (Schönberg) ; The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; The Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka) ; Götterdämmerung (Wagner) ; Goyescas (Granados) ; Gräfin Maritza (Kálmán) ; The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein (Offenbach) ; The Grand Macabre (Ligeti) ; Le Grand Macabre (Ligeti) ; La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein (Offenbach) ; The Grapes of Wrath (Gordon) ; The Great Gatsby (Harbison) ; The Greek Passion (Martinů) ; Griselda (Scarlatti) ; La Griselda (Scarlatti) ; Grisélidis (Massenet) ; Guglielmo Ratcliff (Mascagni) ; Guglielmo Tell (Rossini) ; Guillaume Tell (Rossini) ; Guntram (Strauss) ; Gwendoline (Chabrier) ; The Gypsy Baron (Strauss Jr.) ; Hamlet (Thomas) ; A Hand of Bridge (Barber) ; Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) ; Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) ; Harlequin (Busoni) ; Háry János (Kodály) ; Das Heimchen am Herd (Goldmark) ; Heimkehr aus der Fremde (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) ; Die Heimsuchung (Schuller) ; Hérodiade (Massenet) ; L'Heure Espagnole (Ravel) ; Histoire du Soldat (Stravinsky) ; Homecoming from Abroad (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) ; Hugh the Drover (Williams) ; The Huguenots (Meyerbeer) ; Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) ; The Human Voice (Poulenc) ; The Ice Break (Tippett) ; Idomeneo (Mozart) ; Igrok (Prokofiev) ; Igroki (Shostakovich) ; L'I̊le de Tulipatan (Offenbach) ; Imeneo (Handel) ; The Impresario (Mozart) ; In a Garden (Kupferman) ; L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) ; L'Infedeltà Delusa (Haydn) ; Infidelity Deluded (Haydn) ; The Inquisitive Women (Wolf-Ferrari) ; Intermezzo (Strauss) ; Introductions and Goodbyes (Foss) ; Iolanta (Tchaikovsky) ; Iolanthe (Sullivan) ; Iphigenia in Aulis (Gluck) ; Iphigenia in Tauris (Gluck) ; Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck) ; Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck) ; Iris (Mascagni) ; Irmelin (Delius) ; Isabeau (Mascagni) ; Isis (Lully) ; The Island of Tulipatan (Offenbach) ; The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini) ; L'Italiana in Algeria (Rossini) ; The Jacobin (Dvořák) ; Jakobín (Dvořák) ; Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Honegger) ; Jenůfa (Janáček) ; Jessonda (Spohr) ; The Jesters' Supper (Giordano) ; The Jewels of the Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari) ; The Jewess (Halévy) ; Joan of Arc (Verdi) ; Joan of Arc at the Stake (Honegger) ; La Jolie Fille de Perth (Bizet) ; Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (Massenet) ; Jonny Spielt Auf (Křenek) ; Jonny Strikes Up (Křenek) ; The Joyful Girl (Ponchielli) ; Judith (Honegger) ; The Juggler of Notre Dame (Massenet) ; La Juive (Halévy) ; Julius Caeser (Handel) ; The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Foss) ; Der Junge Lord (Henze) ; Kamenny Gost' (Dargomyzhsky) ; Kát́a Kabanová (Janáček) ; Katerina Izmailova (Shostakovich) [under Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District] ; A Kékszakállú Herceg Vará (Bartók) ; Khovanshchina (Musorgsky) ; The King in Spite of HImself (Chabrier) ; A King Listens (Berio) ; The King of Ys (Lalo) ; King Priam (Tippett) ; King Roger (Szymanowski) ; Die Kluge (Orff) ; The Knights of Ekebù (Zandonai) ; The Knot Garden (Tippett) ; Knyaz' Igor' (Borodin) ; Die Königskinder (Humperdinck) ; Krapp or The Last Tape (Mihalovici) ; Krapp ou La Dernier̀re Bande (Mihalovici) ; Król Roger (Szymanowski) ; Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Shostakovich) ; The Lady of the Lake (Rossini) ; Lakmé (Delibes) ; Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl (Hindemith) ; The Last Savage (Menotti) ; Lear (Reimann) ; Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo Uezda (Shostakovich) ; The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Let's Make an Opera (Britten) [under The Little Swamp] ; Die Liebe der Danea (Strauss) ; Das Liebesverbot (Wagner) ; A Life for the Tsar (Glinka) ; The Lighthouse (Davies) ; Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti) ; Linda of Chamounix (Donizetti) ; Little Marat (Mascagni) ; The Little Prince (Portman) ; The Little Sweep (Britten) ; Little Women (Adamo) ; Lizzie Borden (Beeson) ; Lodoletta (Mascagni) ; Lohengrin (Wagner) ; I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Verdi) ; The Lombards at the First Crusade (Verdi) ; The Long Christmas Dinner (Hindemith) ; Long Christmas Dinner (Hindemith) [under Das Lange Weinachtsmahl] ; Long Live Mother (Donizetti) ; Lord Byron (Thomson) ; Lord Byron's Love Letter (De Banfield) ; Loreley (Catalani) ; Louise (Charpentier) ; The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev) ; The Love of Danae (Strauss) ; The Love of Three Kings (Montemezzi) ; The Love Stricken Brother (Pergolesi) ; The Lowland (d'Albert) ; The Lowland Sea (Wilder) ; Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) ; Lucia of Lammermoor (Donizetti) ; Lucio Silla (Mozart) ; The Lucky Hand (Schönberg) ; Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) ; Luisa Miller (Verdi) ; Lulu (Berg) ; Die Lustige Witwe (Lehár) ; Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai) ; Lyubov' k Tryom Apel'sinam (Prokofiev) ; Macbeth (Bloch) ; Macbeth (Verdi) ; Madam Butterfly (Puccini) ; Madam Free-and-Easy (Giordano) ; Madama Butterfly (Puccini) ; Madame Chrysanthème (Messager) ; Madame Chrysanthemum (Messager) ; Madame Sans-Gêne (Giordano) ; The Magic Flute (Mozart) ; The Magic Fountain (Delius) ; The Magistrate (Wolf) ; Mahagonny (Weill) [under Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny] ; The Maid as Mistress (Pergolesi) ; The Maid of Orleans (Tchaikovsky) ; Maiskaya Noch' (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Le Maître de Chapelle (Paër) ; The Makropulos Affair (Janáček) ; Malady of Love (Engel) ; Les Malheurs d'Orphée (Milhaud) ; Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Poulenc) ; Manon (Massenet) ; Manon Lescaut (Puccini) ; Margaret Garner (Danielpour) ; Maria Golovin (Menotti) ; Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) ; Mâraouf (Rabaud) ; Marriage by Promissory Note (Rossini) ; The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) ; The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) ; Martha (Flotow) ; Mary, Queen of Scots (Musgrave) ; Masaniello (Auber) ; Maskarade (Nielsen) ; A Masked Ball (Verdi) ; I Masnadieri (Verdi) ; Masquerade (Nielsen) ; Master Pedro's Puppet Show (de Falla) ; The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Wagner) ; Mathis der Maler (Hindemith) ; Mathis the Painter (Hindemith) ; Il Matrimonio Segreto (Cimarosa) ; Mavra (Stravinsky) ; May Night (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Mazepa (Tchaikovsky) ; McTeague (Bolcom) ; Médée (Cherubini) ; Médée (Milhaud) ; The Medium (Davies) ; The Medium (Menotti) ; Mefistofele (Boito) ; Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg (Wagner) ; The Merry Widow (Lehár) ; The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) ; The Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten) ; The Mighty Casey (Schuman) ; Mignon (Thomas) ; The Mikado (Sullivan) ; Mireille (Gounod) ; The Miserly Knight (Rakhmaninov) ; The Misfortunes of Orpheus (Milhaud) ; Miss Havisham's Wedding Night (Argento) ; Miss Julie (Rorem) ; Mister Bruschino (Rossini) ; Mister Cauliflower (Offenbach, St. Rémy) ; Mitridate (Mozart) ; Moby-Dick (Heggie) ; Moïse et Pharaon (Rossini) ; Der Mond (Orff) ; Il Mondo della Luna (Haydn) ; Monsieur Choufleuri (Offenbach, St. Rémy) ; Montezuma (Sessions) ; The Moon (Orff) ; Mosé in Egitto (Rossini) ; Moses and Aaron (Schönberg) ; Moses in Egypt (Rossini) ; Moses und Aron (Schönberg) ; The Mother of Us All (Thomson) ; Motsart i Sal'eri (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; Mourning Becomes Electra (Levy) ; Mozart and Salieri (Rimsky-Korsakov) ; La Muette de Portici (Auber) ; The Music Master (Paër) ; Nabucco (Verdi) ; Les Naufrageurs (Smyth) ; La Navarraise (Massenet) ; Nerone (Boito) ; Neues vom Tage (Hindemith) ; The Night Bell (Donizetti) ; Night Flight (Dallapiccola) ; The Nightingale (Stravinsky) ; Nina (Paisiello) ; Nixon in China (Adams) ; Norma (Bellini) ; Nos (Shostakovich) ; The Nose (Shostakovich) ; Noye's Fludde (Britten) ; Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) ; Oberon (Weber). Introduction to the first edition -- Introduction to the second edition -- Explanatory notes -- Acknowledgments -- Operas by title -- Operas by composer -- Entries -- Indexes : Index of librettists Index of arias Index of one-act operas -- About the author. L'Abandon d'Ariane (Milhaud) The abandonment of Ariadne (Milhaud) The abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart) The abduction of Europa (Milhaud) Abu Hassan (Weber) Acis and Galatea (Handel) Admeto (Handel) Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilèa) Adriana Mater (Saariaho) L'Africaine (Meyerbeer) The African woman (Meyerbeer) Agrippina (Handel) Die Ägyptische Helena (Strauss) Aïda (Verdi) Akhnaten (Glass) Albert Herring (Britten) Alceste (Gluck) Alcina (Handel) Alexandr Twice (Martinů) Alfonso and Estrella (Schubert) Alfonso and Estrella (Schubert) Alzira (Verdi) Amahl and the night visitors (Menotti) Amelia al Ballo (Menotti) Amelia goes to the ball (Menotti) L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni) L'Amore dei Tre Re (Montemazzi) L'Amore Medico (Wolf-Ferrari) Andrea Chénier (Giordano) Angélique (Ibert) Aniara (Blomdahl) Anna Bolena (Donizetti) Antony and Cleopatra (Barber) The Apothecary (Haydn) Arabella (Strauss) Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss) Ariadne on Naxos (Strauss) Ariane and Bluebeard (Dukas) Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Dukas) Ariodante (Handel) Arlecchino (Busoni) Armida (Haydn) Armide (Gluck) Armistice Day (Strauss) Aroldo (Verdi) Ascanio in Alba (Mozart) The Aspern Papers (Argento) Assassination in the Cathedral (Pizzetti) Assassinio nella Cattedrale (Pizzetti) At the Boar's Head (Holst) Atalanta (Handel) Attila (Verdi) Atys (Lully) Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Weill) Ba-ta-clan (Offenbach) The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore) The Ban of Love (Wagner) The Bandits (Verdi) The Barber of Bagdad (Cornelius) The Barber of Seville (Paisiello) The Barber of Seville (Rossini) Der Barbier von Bagdad (Cornelius) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) The Bartered Bride (Smetana) Die Bassariden (Henze) The Bassarids (Henze) Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart) Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart) The Bat (Strauss Jr.) La Battaglia di Legnano (Verdi) The Battle of Legnano (Verdi) The Bear (Walton) Béatrice (Messager) Béatrice and Bénédict (Berlioz) Beatrice di Tenda (Bellini) Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz) Beatrice of Tenda (Bellini) Beatrix Cenci (Ginastera) The Beautiful Helen (Offenbach) Beauty and the Beast (Giannini) The Beggar Student (Millöcker) The Beggar's Opera (Pepusch) La Belle Hélène (Offenbach) Beltane Fire (Strauss) Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz) Bertha (Rorem) Der Besuch der alten Dame (Einem) Betrothal in a Convent (Prokofiev) Der Bettelstudent (Millöcker) Billy Budd (Britten) The Black Domino (Auber) Bluebeard's Castle (Bartók) Boccaccio (Suppé) La Bohème (Leoncavallo) La Bohème (Puccini) The Bohemian (Leoncavallo) The Bohemian (Puccini) The Bohemian Girl (Balfe) Bomarzo (Ginastera) The Boor (Argento) Boris Godunov (Musorgsky) Brandenburgers in Bohemia (Smetana) Braniboři v Čechách (Smetana) The Breasts of Tirésias (Poulenc) The Bridge of Sighs (Offenbach) A Brief Life (de Falla) The Brigands (Offenbach) Les Brigands (Offenbach) Brother Devil (Auber) The Burning Fiery Furnace (Britten) Calisto (Cavalli) La Calisto (Cavalli) La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini) La Campanello Sommersa (Respighi) Il Campanello (Donizetti) Il Campiello (Wolf-Ferrari) Candide (Bernstein) Capriccio (Strauss) I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini) The Capulets and the Montagues (Bellini) Cardillac (Hindemith) Carmen (Bizet) Carry Nation (Moore) Casanova's Homecoming (Argento) Castor and Pollux (Rameau) Castor et Pollux (Rameau) Caterina Cornaro (Donizetti) The Cavalieri di Ekebù (Zandonai) Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) La Cena delle Beffe (Giordano) Cendrillon (Massenet) La Cenerentola (Rossini) Čert a Káča (Dvořák) The Child and the Spells (Ravel) The Christmas Rose (Bridge) The Cid (Massenet) Le Cid (Massenet) Čím človĕk žije (Martinů) Cinderella (Massenet) Cinderella (Rossini) The Clemency of Titus (Mozart) La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart) Cleopatra (Massenet) Cléopâtre (Massenet) The Cloak (Puccini) The Clowns (Leoncavallo) Cold Sassy Tree (Floyd) The Combat of Tancred and Clorinda (Monteverdi) Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Monteverdi) Comedy on the Bridge (Martinů) The Comic Duel (Paisiello) Le Comte Ory (Rossini) The Consul (Menotti) Le Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) Le Convenienze ed Inconvenieze Teatrali (Donizetti) [under Viva la Mamma] Coq d'Or (Rimsky-Korsakov) [under the Golden Cockerel] The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi) Der Corregidor (Wolf) The Corsair (Verdi) Il Corsaro (Verdi) Così fan tutte (Mozart) The Count Ory (Rossini) Countess Maritza (Kálmán) The Cricket on the Hearth (Goldmark) The Crucible (Ward) Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Martínez) Cumberland Fair (Wilder) The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček) Dalibor (Smetana) La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz) The Damnation of Faust (Berlioz) The Dangerous Liaisons (Susa) Daphne (Strauss) The Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti) The Dead City (Korngold) Dead Man Walking (Heggie) Death in Venice (Britten) Dèbora and Jaéle (Pizzetti) A Defective Education (Chabrier) Le Dernier Sauvage (Menotti) Des Esels Schatten (Stauss) The Desert Song (Romberg) Destiny (Janáček) The Devil and Daniel Webster (Moore) The Devil and Kate (Dvořák) The Devil Take Her (Benjamin) The Devils of Loudun (Penderecki) Dialogues des Carmélites (Poulenc) Dialogues of the Carmelites (Poulenc) Dido and Æneas (Purcell) Le Docteur Miracle (Bizet) Doctor Atomic (Adams) Doctor Cupid (Wolf-Ferrari) Doctor Faust (Busoni) Doctor Miracle (Bizet) Doktor Faust (Busoni) Dom Sébastien (Donizetti) Domino Noir (Auber) Don Carlo (Verdi) Don Giovanni (Mozart) Don Pasquale (Donizetti) Don Quichotte (Massenet) Don Rodrigo (Ginastera) The Donkey's Shadow (Strauss) La Donna del Lago (Rossini) Le Donne Curiose (Wolf-Ferrari) Double Trouble (Mohaupt) Down in the Valley (Weill) The Dream of Scipio (Mozart) Die Dreigroschenoper (Weill) I Due Foscari (Verdi) Il Duello Comico (Paisiello) The Duenna (Prokofiev) [under Betrothal in a Convent] Dvakrát Alexandr (Martinů) Edgar (Puccini) The Egyptian Helen (Strauss) Einstein on the Beach (Glass) El Retablo de Maese Pedro (de Falla) Elegie für junge Liebende (Henze) Elegy for Young Lovers (Henze) Elektra (Strauss) Elisabetta (Rossini) E'Elisir d'Amore (Donizetti) The Elixir of Love (Donizetti) The End of a World (Henze) Das Ende einer Welt (Henze) L'Enfant et lest Sortilèges (Ravel) L'Enfant Prodigue (Debussy) Die Englische Katze (Henze) The English Cat (Henze) L'Enlèvement d'Europe (Milhaud) Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart) Ernani (Verdi) Erwartung (Schönberg) Esclarmonde (Massenet) Esther (Weisgall) Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) Euridice (Peri) Euryanthe (Weber) Evgeny Onegin (Tchaikovsky) The Excursions of Mr. Brouček on the Moon and in the 15th century (Janáček) Expectation (Schönberg) The Fable of Orfeo (Monteverdi) The Fair of Sorochintsy (Musorgsky) The Fairies (Puccini) The Fairies (Wagner) The Fairy Queen (Purcell) The Faithful Shepherd (Handel) The Fallen Woman (Verdi) Falstaff (Verdi) La Fanciulla del West (Puccini) Faust (Gounod) La Favola d'Orfeo (Monteverdi) The Favorite (Donizetti) La Favorite (Donizetti) Fedora (Giordano) Die Feen (Wagner) Feurersnot (Strauss) La Fiamma (Respighi) Fidelio (Beethoven) Fierrabras (Schubert) The Fiery Angel (Prokofiev) Fiesta (Milhaud) La Fille du Régiment (Donizetti) La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart) La Finta Semplice (Mozart) The First Emperor (Dun) The Flame (Respighi) Die Fledermaus (Strauss Jr.) Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner) Flight (Dove) A Flowering Tree (Adams) The Flying Dutchman (Wagner) The Force of Destiny (Verdi) The Foreign Woman (Bellini) The Forest (Smyth) La Forza del Destino (Verdi) The Four Rustics (Wolf-Ferrari) Four Saints in Three Acts (Thomson) The Four-Note Opera (Johnson) The Fox (Musto) Fra Diavolo (Auber) Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai) Francesca of Rimini (Rakhmaninov) Francesca of Rimini (Zandonai) Francheska da Rimini (Rakhmaninov) Lo Frate 'nnamorato (Pergolesi) Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Strauss) The Free Shooter (Weber) Der Freischütz (Weber) Friedenstag (Strauss) Friend Fritz (Mascagni) From One Day to the Next (Schönberg) From the House of the Dead (Janáček). The Gambler (Prokofiev) The Gamblers (Shostakovich) A Game of Chance (Barab) La Gazza Ladra (Rossini) The Ghosts of Versailles (Corigliano) Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) La Gioconda (Ponchielli) I Gioielli della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari) Giovanna d'Arco (Verdi) The Girl from Navarre (Massenet) The Girl from the Golden West (Puccini) Giulio Cesare (Handel) Gloriana (Britten) Die Glückliche Hand (Schönberg) The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Korsakov) The Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka) Götterdämmerung (Wagner) Goyescas (Granados) Gräfin Maritza (Kálmán) The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein (Offenbach) The Grand Macabre (Ligeti) Le Grand Macabre (Ligeti) La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein (Offenbach) The Grapes of Wrath (Gordon) The Great Gatsby (Harbison) The Greek Passion (Martinů) Griselda (Scarlatti) La Griselda (Scarlatti) Grisélidis (Massenet) Guglielmo Ratcliff (Mascagni) Guglielmo Tell (Rossini) Guillaume Tell (Rossini) Guntram (Strauss) Gwendoline (Chabrier) The Gypsy Baron (Strauss Jr.) Hamlet (Thomas) A Hand of Bridge (Barber) Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) Harlequin (Busoni) Háry János (Kodály) Das Heimchen am Herd (Goldmark) Heimkehr aus der Fremde (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) Die Heimsuchung (Schuller) Hérodiade (Massenet) L'Heure Espagnole (Ravel) Histoire du Soldat (Stravinsky) Homecoming from Abroad (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) Hugh the Drover (Williams) The Huguenots (Meyerbeer) Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) The Human Voice (Poulenc) The Ice Break (Tippett) Idomeneo (Mozart) Igrok (Prokofiev) Igroki (Shostakovich) L'I̊le de Tulipatan (Offenbach) Imeneo (Handel) The Impresario (Mozart) In a Garden (Kupferman) L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi) L'Infedeltà Delusa (Haydn) Infidelity Deluded (Haydn) The Inquisitive Women (Wolf-Ferrari) Intermezzo (Strauss) Introductions and Goodbyes (Foss) Iolanta (Tchaikovsky) Iolanthe (Sullivan) Iphigenia in Aulis (Gluck) Iphigenia in Tauris (Gluck) Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck) Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck) Iris (Mascagni) Irmelin (Delius) Isabeau (Mascagni) Isis (Lully) The Island of Tulipatan (Offenbach) The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini) L'Italiana in Algeria (Rossini) The Jacobin (Dvořák) Jakobín (Dvořák) Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Honegger) Jenůfa (Janáček) Jessonda (Spohr) The Jesters' Supper (Giordano) The Jewels of the Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari) The Jewess (Halévy) Joan of Arc (Verdi) Joan of Arc at the Stake (Honegger) La Jolie Fille de Perth (Bizet) Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (Massenet) Jonny Spielt Auf (Křenek) Jonny Strikes Up (Křenek) The Joyful Girl (Ponchielli) Judith (Honegger) The Juggler of Notre Dame (Massenet) La Juive (Halévy) Julius Caeser (Handel) The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Foss) Der Junge Lord (Henze) Kamenny Gost' (Dargomyzhsky) Kát́a Kabanová (Janáček) Katerina Izmailova (Shostakovich) [under Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District] A Kékszakállú Herceg Vará (Bartók) Khovanshchina (Musorgsky) The King in Spite of HImself (Chabrier) A King Listens (Berio) The King of Ys (Lalo) King Priam (Tippett) King Roger (Szymanowski) Die Kluge (Orff) The Knights of Ekebù (Zandonai) The Knot Garden (Tippett) Knyaz' Igor' (Borodin) Die Königskinder (Humperdinck) Krapp or The Last Tape (Mihalovici) Krapp ou La Dernier̀re Bande (Mihalovici) Król Roger (Szymanowski) Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Shostakovich) The Lady of the Lake (Rossini) Lakmé (Delibes) Das Lange Weihnachtsmahl (Hindemith) The Last Savage (Menotti) Lear (Reimann) Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo Uezda (Shostakovich) The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (Rimsky-Korsakov) Let's Make an Opera (Britten) [under The Little Swamp] Die Liebe der Danea (Strauss) Das Liebesverbot (Wagner) A Life for the Tsar (Glinka) The Lighthouse (Davies) Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti) Linda of Chamounix (Donizetti) Little Marat (Mascagni) The Little Prince (Portman) The Little Sweep (Britten) Little Women (Adamo) Lizzie Borden (Beeson) Lodoletta (Mascagni) Lohengrin (Wagner) I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Verdi) The Lombards at the First Crusade (Verdi) The Long Christmas Dinner (Hindemith) Long Christmas Dinner (Hindemith) [under Das Lange Weinachtsmahl] Long Live Mother (Donizetti) Lord Byron (Thomson) Lord Byron's Love Letter (De Banfield) Loreley (Catalani) Louise (Charpentier) The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev) The Love of Danae (Strauss) The Love of Three Kings (Montemezzi) The Love Stricken Brother (Pergolesi) The Lowland (d'Albert) The Lowland Sea (Wilder) Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Lucia of Lammermoor (Donizetti) Lucio Silla (Mozart) The Lucky Hand (Schönberg) Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) Luisa Miller (Verdi) Lulu (Berg) Die Lustige Witwe (Lehár) Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai) Lyubov' k Tryom Apel'sinam (Prokofiev) Macbeth (Bloch) Macbeth (Verdi) Madam Butterfly (Puccini) Madam Free-and-Easy (Giordano) Madama Butterfly (Puccini) Madame Chrysanthème (Messager) Madame Chrysanthemum (Messager) Madame Sans-Gêne (Giordano) The Magic Flute (Mozart) The Magic Fountain (Delius) The Magistrate (Wolf) Mahagonny (Weill) [under Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny] The Maid as Mistress (Pergolesi) The Maid of Orleans (Tchaikovsky) Maiskaya Noch' (Rimsky-Korsakov) Le Maître de Chapelle (Paër) The Makropulos Affair (Janáček) Malady of Love (Engel) Les Malheurs d'Orphée (Milhaud) Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Poulenc) Manon (Massenet) Manon Lescaut (Puccini) Margaret Garner (Danielpour) Maria Golovin (Menotti) Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Mâraouf (Rabaud) Marriage by Promissory Note (Rossini) The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) Martha (Flotow) Mary, Queen of Scots (Musgrave) Masaniello (Auber) Maskarade (Nielsen) A Masked Ball (Verdi) I Masnadieri (Verdi) Masquerade (Nielsen) Master Pedro's Puppet Show (de Falla) The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Wagner) Mathis der Maler (Hindemith) Mathis the Painter (Hindemith) Il Matrimonio Segreto (Cimarosa) Mavra (Stravinsky) May Night (Rimsky-Korsakov) Mazepa (Tchaikovsky) McTeague (Bolcom) Médée (Cherubini) Médée (Milhaud) The Medium (Davies) The Medium (Menotti) Mefistofele (Boito) Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg (Wagner) The Merry Widow (Lehár) The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) The Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten) The Mighty Casey (Schuman) Mignon (Thomas) The Mikado (Sullivan) Mireille (Gounod) The Miserly Knight (Rakhmaninov) The Misfortunes of Orpheus (Milhaud) Miss Havisham's Wedding Night (Argento) Miss Julie (Rorem) Mister Bruschino (Rossini) Mister Cauliflower (Offenbach, St. Rémy) Mitridate (Mozart) Moby-Dick (Heggie) Moïse et Pharaon (Rossini) Der Mond (Orff) Il Mondo della Luna (Haydn) Monsieur Choufleuri (Offenbach, St. Rémy) Montezuma (Sessions) The Moon (Orff) Mosé in Egitto (Rossini) Moses and Aaron (Schönberg) Moses in Egypt (Rossini) Moses und Aron (Schönberg) The Mother of Us All (Thomson) Motsart i Sal'eri (Rimsky-Korsakov) Mourning Becomes Electra (Levy) Mozart and Salieri (Rimsky-Korsakov) La Muette de Portici (Auber) The Music Master (Paër) Nabucco (Verdi) Les Naufrageurs (Smyth) La Navarraise (Massenet) Nerone (Boito) Neues vom Tage (Hindemith) The Night Bell (Donizetti) Night Flight (Dallapiccola) The Nightingale (Stravinsky) Nina (Paisiello) Nixon in China (Adams) Norma (Bellini) Nos (Shostakovich) The Nose (Shostakovich) Noye's Fludde (Britten) Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Oberon (Weber). Oberto (Verdi) Obruchenie v Monastyre (Prokofiev) Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky) Of Mice and Men (Floyd) Ognenny Angel (Prokofiev) The Old Maid and the Thief (Menotti) Olympie (Spontini) A One-Day Reign (Verdi) The Oracle (Leoni) L'Oracolo (Leoni) Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) Orlando (Handel) Orlando Furioso (Vivaldi) Orleanskaya Deva (Tchaikovsky) Ormindo (Cavalli) L'Ormindo (Cavalli) Orontea (Cesti) L'Orontea (Cesti) Orphée aux Enfers (Offenbach) Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck) Orpheus and Eurydice (Gluck) Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) Osud (Janáček) Otello (Rossini) Otello (Verdi) Owen Wingrave (Britten) Paganini (Lehár) Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) Palestrina (Pfitzner) Paradise Lost (Penderecki) Parisian Life (Offenbach) Parisina d'Este (Donizetti) Parisina of Este (Donizetti) Parsifal (Wagner) Il Pastor Fido (Handel) Paul Bunyan (Britten) Le Pauvre Matelot (Milhaud) The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Bizet) Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy) Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy) Pénélope (Fauré) Périchole (Offenbach) La Périchole (Offenbach) Peter Grimes (Britten) Phaëton (Lully) Il Piccolo Marat (Mascagni) La Pietra del Paragone (Rossini) Pikovaya Dama (Tchaikovsky) Pimpinone (Telemann) Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) [under The Queen of Spades] Il Parata (Bellini) The Pirate (Bellini) The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan) The Poacher (Lortzing) The Poisoned Kiss (Williams) Les Pont des Soupirs (Offenbach) The Poor Sailor (Milhaud) Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) Postcard from Morocco (Argento) The Postilion of Lonjumeau (Adam) Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam) Il Postino (Catán) The Postman (Catán) The Postman Always Rings Twice (Paulus) The Pretender Gardener (Mozart) The Pretended Simpleton (Mozart) The Pretty Maid of Perth (Bizet) Il Prigioniero (Dallapiccola) Příhody Lišky Bystroušky (Janáček) Prince Igor (Borodin) The Princes Khovansky (Musorgsky) The Princess and the Pea (Toch) Die Prinzessin auf der Ebse (Toch) The Prisoner (Dallapiccola) Prodaná Nevĕsta (Smetana) The Prodigal Son (Britten) The Prodigal Son (Debussy) Prometheus (Orff) The Prophet (Meyerbeer) The Protagonist (Weill) Der Protagonist (Weill) The Protagonist (Weill) Punainen (Viiva) Purgatory (Weisgall) I Puritani (Bellini) The Puritans (Bellini) I Quattro Rusteghi (Wolf-Ferrari) The Queen of Sheba (Goldmark) The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) A Quiet Place (Bernstein) Radamisto (Handel) The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky) The Rape of Lucretia (Britten) Il Re Pastore (Mozart) Řecké pašije (Martinů) The Red Line (Sallinen) The Return of Ulysses to his Country (Montiverdi) Das Rheingold (Wagner) The Rhinegold (Wagner) Riders to the Sea (Williams) Rienzi (Wagner) Rigoletto (Verdi) Rinaldo (Handel) The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill) Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Monteverdi) Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer) Robert the Devil (Meyerbeer) Roberto Devereux (Donizetti) Le Roi d'Ys (Lalo) Le Roi Malgré Lui (Chabrier) Romeo and Juliet (Gounod) Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) La Rondine (Puccini) Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) Le Rossignol (Stravinsky) [under The Nightingale] The Royal Children (Humperdinck) The Ruby (Joio) Rusalka (Dvořák) Russlan and Ludmilla (Glinka) Russlan i Ludmilla (Glinka) Rustic Chivalry (Mascagni) Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov) Saffo (Pacini) Saint Francis of Assis (Messiaen) Saint François d'Assise (Messiaen) The Saint of Bleeker Street (Menotti) Salome (Strauss) Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saëns) Samson et Delila (Saint-Saëns) Sapho (Gounod) Sapho (Massenet) Sappho (Gounod) Sappho (Massenet) Sappho (Pacini) Šárka (Janáček) Satyagraha (Glass) La Scala di Seta (Rossini) Scaramouche (Sibelius) The Scarf (Hoiby) Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) School for Wives (Liebermann) Schwanda the Bagpiper (Weinberger) [under Švanda Dudák] Die Schweigsame Frau (Strauss) The Second Hurricane (Copland) The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa) Il Segreto di Susanne (Wolf-Ferrari) Semirama (Respighi) Semiramide (Rossini) Serse (Handel) La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi) The Shepherd King (Mozart) The Shepherd of the Delectable Mountains (Williams) The Sicilian Vespers (Verdi) Le Siège de Corinthe (Rossini) The Siege of Corinth (Rossini) Siegfried (Wagner) Il Signor Bruschino (Rossini) The Silent Woman (Strauss) The Silken Ladder (Rossini) Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) Sir John in Love (Williams) Sister Angelica (Puccini) Six Characters in Search of an Author (Weisgall) Skazani o Nevidimom Grade Kitezhe i Deve Fevrony (Rimsky-Korsakov) Skazka o Tsare Saltane (Rimsky-Korsakov) Skupoi Rytsar' (Rakhmaninov) The Sleepwalker (Bellini) Snegurochka (Rimsky-Korsakov) The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov) Il Sogno di Scipione (Mozart) Die Soldaten (Zimmermann) The Soldier's Tale (Stravinsky) The Soldiers (Zimmermann) Solovey (Stravinsky) La Sonnambula (Bellini) Sorochinskaya Yarmarka (Musorgsky) The Spanish Hour (Ravel) The Spanish Lady (Elgar) Lo Speziale (Haydn) Die Spieler (Shostakovich) The Square (Wolf-Ferrari) Stiffelio (Verdi) The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) Strandrecht (Smyth) La Straniera (Bellini) Street Scene (Weill) A Streetcar Named Desire (Previn) The Studen Prince (Romberg) Summer and Smoke (Hoiby) Sunday Excursion (Wilder) The Sunken Bell (Respighi) Suor Angelica (Puccini) Susanna's Secret (Wolf-Ferrari) Susannah (Floyd) Švanda Dudák (Weinberger) Švanda the Bagpiper (Weinberger) The Swallow (Puccini) Il Tabarro (Puccini) The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov) A Tale of Two Cities (Benjamin) The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Tamerlano (Handel) The Taming of the Shrew (Giannini) Tancredi (Rossini) Tannhäuser (Wagner) Tartuffe (Mechem) The Telephone (Menotti) The Tempest (Adès) The Tempest (Hoiby) The Tender Land (Copland) Die Teufel von Loudun (Penderecki) Thaïs (Massenet) The Thieving Magpie (Rossini) Three Decembers (Heggie) The Three Penny Opera (Weill) Tiefland (d'Albert) To Cross the Face of the Moon (Martínez) Tom Jones (Philidor) Tosca (Puccini) Die Tot Stadt (Korngold) The Touchstone (Rossini) Transformations (Susa) La Traviata (Verdi) Treemonisha (Joplin) Tristan and Isolde (Wagner) Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Troilus and Cressida (Walton) The Trojans (Berlioz) The Troubadour (Verdi) Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)[under A Quiet Place] Il Trovatore (Verdi) Les Troyens (Berlioz) Tsar and Carpenter (Lortzing) The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken (Weill) The Tsar's Bride (Rimsky-Korsakov) Tsarskaya Nevesta (Rimsky-Korsakov) Turandot (Busoni) Turandot (Puccini) Il Turco in Italia (Rossini) The Turk in Italy (Rossini) The Turn of the Shrew (Britten) The Twilight of the Gods (Wagner) The Two Foscari (Verdi) Ulisse (Dallapiccola) Ulysses (Dallapiccola) Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi) Un Giorno di Regno (Verdi) Un Re in Ascolto (Berio) Une Education Manquée (Chabrier) The Valkyrie (Wagner) The Vampire (Marschner) Der Vampyr (Marschner) Vanessa (Barber) Vĕc Makropulsos (Janáček) Les Vêpres Siciliennes (Verdi) Veselohra no mostě (Martinů) I Vespri Siciliani (Verdi) The Vestal (Spontini) La Vestale (Spontini) Il Viaggio a Reims (Rossini) La Vida Breve (de Falla) La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach) Viennese Blood (Strauss Jr.) A View from the Bridge (Bolcom) A Village Romeo and Juliet (Delius) Le Villi (Puccini) Violanta (Korngold) The Visit of the Old Lady (Einem) The Visitation (Schuller) Viva la Mamma (Donizetti) Voina i Mir (Prokofiev) La Voix Humaine (Poulenc) Volo di Notte (Dallapiccola) Volpone (Musto) Von Heute auf Morgen (Schönberg) The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (Argento) The Voyage to Reims (Rossini) Výlet pana Broučka do Měsíce / Výlet pana Broučka do XV století (Janáček) Der Wald (Smyth) Die Walküre (Wagner) La Wally (Catalani) The Wandering Scholar (Holst) War and Peace (Prokofiev) A Water Bird Talk (Argento) Werther (Massenet) What Men Live By (Martinů) Where the Wild Things Are (Knussen) Wiener Blut (Strauss Jr.) The Wife of Martin Guerre (Bergsma) Der Wildschütz (Lortzing) William Ratcliff (Mascagni) William Tell (Rossini) Willie Stark (Floyd) The Wings of the Dove (Moore) The Wise Woman (Orff) The Woman without a Shadow (Strauss) Women Are Like That (Mozart) The World on the Moon (Haydn) Wozzeck (Berg) The Wreckers (Smyth) Wuthering Heights (Floyd) Wuthering Heights (Herrmann) Xerxes (Handel) Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan) Yerma (Villa-Lobos) The Young Lord (Henze) Z Mrtvého Domu (Janáček) Der Zar Lässt sich Photographieren (Weill) Zar und Zimmermann (Lortzing) Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) Zazà (Leoncavallo) Zhizn' za Tsarya (Glinka) Die Zigeunerbaron (Strauss Jr.) Zolotoi Petuschok (Rimsky-Korsakov).