GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL 165 Giulio Cesare in Egitto 165 Ariodante 169 Alcina 171 Serse 173 Semele 175 MIKHAIL GLINKA 143 A Life for the Tsar 143 Ruslan i Lyudmila 145ĬHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK 147 Orfeo ed Euridice 147 Alceste 150 Iphigénie en Aulide 152 Iphigénie en Tauride 154ĬHARLES FRANÇOIS GOUNOD 156 Faust 156 Roméo et Juliette 160 UMBERTO GIORDANO 136 Andrea Chénier 136 Fedora 140 GAETANO DONIZETTI 101 Anna Bolena 101 L’elisir d’amore 104 Lucrezia Borgia 107 Maria Stuarda 109 Lucia di Lammermoor 112 La Fille du régiment 116 Don Pasquale 119įRIEDRICH VON FLOTOW 125 Martha, oder der Markt von Richmond 125 The Turn of the Screw 72 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 75 Death in Venice 79ĭOMENICO CIMAROSA 90 Il matrimonio segreto 90ĬLAUDE DEBUSSY 93 Pelléas et Mélisande 93 GEORGES BIZET 45 Les Pêcheurs de perles 45 Carmen 47īENJAMIN BRITTEN 56 Peter Grimes 56 The Rape of Lucretia 61 Albert Herring 63 Billy Budd 65 Gloriana 69

HECTOR BERLIOZ 35 Benvenuto Cellini 35 Béatrice et Bénédict 38 Les Troyens 40 VINCENZO BELLINI 11 I Capuleti e i Montecchi 11 La sonnambula 14 Norma 18 I puritani 23 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1Ĭontents Preface xi DANIEL-FRANÇOIS-ESPRIT AUBER 1 Fra Diavolo, ou L’hôtellerie de Terracine 1 Ofﬁce: Europe Ofﬁce: Set in Minion by Alliance Interactive Technology, Pondicherry, India Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0–300–10440–5 Library of Congress Control Number 2004107445 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durablility of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. For information about this and other Yale University Press publications, please contact: U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Yale University Press New Haven and LondonĬopyright © 2004 by Charles Osborne All rights reserved. The Opera Lover’s Companion charles osborne

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