AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to express my best thanks to the following Publishing Houses and holders of copyrights for their kind permission to include in this volume the stories of the various operas selected, and for the helpful information they have given me regardinglibretti, etc.:—
Messrs.Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd., London. (For Mascagni'sCavalleria Rusticanaand Leoncavallo'sPagliacci.)Messrs.Boosey & Co., Ltd., London. (For Auber'sFra Diavolo, Flotow'sMartha, and Meyerbeer'sRobert the Devil.)Messrs.Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzic. (For Wagner'sLohengrinandTristan and Isolda).Messrs.Brockhaus, Leipzic. (For Humperdinck'sKönigskinder.)Messrs.Chappell & Co., Ltd., London. (For Gounod'sFaust.)Messrs.Cramer & Co., Ltd., London. (For Offenbach'sTales of Hoffmann.)Covent Garden Opera House Management.(For courteous assistance.)HerrAdolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10, and HerrS. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, W.57. (For Strauss'sElektraandRosenkavalier.)(The story ofElektrais published by authorization of Herr Adolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10, and Herr S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, W.57. Copyright, 1908, by Adolph Fürstner, Berlin.)(The story ofRosenkavalieris published by authorization of Herr Adolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10. Copyright, 1909, by Adolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10.)
Messrs.Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd., London. (For Mascagni'sCavalleria Rusticanaand Leoncavallo'sPagliacci.)
Messrs.Boosey & Co., Ltd., London. (For Auber'sFra Diavolo, Flotow'sMartha, and Meyerbeer'sRobert the Devil.)
Messrs.Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzic. (For Wagner'sLohengrinandTristan and Isolda).
Messrs.Brockhaus, Leipzic. (For Humperdinck'sKönigskinder.)
Messrs.Chappell & Co., Ltd., London. (For Gounod'sFaust.)
Messrs.Cramer & Co., Ltd., London. (For Offenbach'sTales of Hoffmann.)
Covent Garden Opera House Management.(For courteous assistance.)
HerrAdolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10, and HerrS. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, W.57. (For Strauss'sElektraandRosenkavalier.)
(The story ofElektrais published by authorization of Herr Adolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10, and Herr S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, W.57. Copyright, 1908, by Adolph Fürstner, Berlin.)
(The story ofRosenkavalieris published by authorization of Herr Adolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10. Copyright, 1909, by Adolph Fürstner, Berlin, W.10.)