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Marguerite
FAUST In five acts by CHARLES GOUNOD. The subject of this piece is taken from the first part of Goethe's greatest drama--"Faust". Faust, a celebrated old Doctor, is consumed by an insatiable thirst for knowledge, but, having already li...
Martha
In four acts by FLOTOW. Text by W. FRIEDRICH. This charming opera finally established the renown of its composer, who had first found his way to public favor through "Stradella".--It ranks high among our comic operas, and has become as mu...
Melusine
In three acts by CARL GRAMMANN. Text after C. CAMP'S poem of the same name. Tableaux and mise en scene after SCHWIND'S composition. The composer of this opera is known in the musical world as the author of many other fine works. He has ...
Merlin
In three acts by CHARLES GOLDMARK. Text by SIEGFRIED LIPINER. This latest creation of the talented composer at once proved itself a success, when produced for the first time in the Opera-House in Vienna. Since then it has quickly passed to...
Mignon
In three acts by AMBROISE THOMAS Text by MICHEL CARRE and JULES BARBIER. This opera is full of French grace and vivacity, and has been favorably received in Germany. The authors have used for their libretto Goethe's celebrated novel "Wilh...
Moloch
In three Acts. Music by MAX SCHILLINGS. Libretto by EMIL GERHAEUSER, founded on HEBBEL'S fragment "MOLOCH". The first representation of this opera took place on December 8th 1906 in the Dresden Royal Opera. It is the production of a hig...
Nausikaa
Second Part of the Tetralogy: The Odyssey. Musical Tragedy in three acts and a Prologue by AUGUST BUNGERT. The first representation of Nausikaa took place in Dresden on March 20th 1901.--The reception was much warmer than that given to Kirk...
Norma
In two acts by BELLINI. Text by ROMANI. Few operas can boast of as good and effective a libretto as that, which Romani wrote for Bellini's Norma. He took his subject from a French tragedy and wrote it in beautiful Italian verse. With t...
Oberon
In three acts by WEBER. English text by PLANCHE translated by TH. HELL. Oberon is Weber's last work. In the year 1824 he had the honor of being commissioned to compose this opera for the Covent-garden theatre. He began at once to study En...
Odysseus' Death
Fourth Part of the Odyssey in three acts by AUGUST BUNGERT. This last part of the Tetralogy bears more decided indications of Wagner's influence than the others do; and though strikingly beautiful in many ways it fails to excite quite the sam...
Odysseus' Return
In three acts with a Prelude by AUGUST BUNGERT. A musical drama of the highest interest, one which may be considered equal to Wagner's great Nibelung series, has been created at last. "Odysseus' Return" is the third of four parts of a cyclu...
Orfeo E Eurydice
In three acts by GLUCK. Text by RANIERO DI CALZABIGI. This opera is the oldest of all we possess in our repertoire. Gluck had already written more than forty operas, of which we do not even know the names now, when he composed his Orfeo, ...
Othello
In four acts by GIUSEPPE VERDI. Text by ARRIGO BOITO, translated into the German by MAX KALBECK. In his seventy-third year the Maestro has given to his time an opera, which surpasses his former compositions in many respects. It proves, th...
Pagliacci
(MERRY ANDREW.) In two acts and a Prologue. Music and Text by R. LEONCAVALLO. Translated into the German by LUDWIG HARTMANN. In the summer of the year 1892 a rumour was going through the musical world, that Mascagni had found his equa...
Philemon And Baucis
In two acts by CHARLES GOUNOD. Text by JULES BARBIER and MICHEL CARRE, with an intermezzo. This is a truly delightful musical composition and though unpretending and not on the level of Gounod's "Margaretha", it does not deserve to be forg...
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