CONTENTS
PAGEAuber—Fra Diavolo1Balfe—The Bohemian Girl14Beethoven—Fidelio28Bellini—La Sonnambula38I Puritani46Benedict—The Lily of Killarney52Bizet—Carmen62Donizetti—Lucrezia Borgia73Lucia di Lammermoor80The Daughter of the Regiment.(La Figlia del Reggimento)87Flotow—Martha95Gounod—Faust105Philemon and Baucis115Romeo and Juliet125Halèvy—The Jewess. (La Juive)135Humperdinck—Die Königskinder (The Kingly Children)143Leoncavallo—I Pagliacci. (The Mountebanks)158Mascagni—Cavalleria Rusticana. (Rustic Chivalry)165Meyerbeer—Robert the Devil. (Robert le Diable)171The Huguenots. (Les Huguenots)180Star of the North. (L'Etoile du Nord)192Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro.(Le Nozze di Figaro)206Don Juan. (Don Giovanni)217Nicolai—The Merry Wives of Windsor229Offenbach—The Tales of Hoffmann.(Les Contes d'Hoffmann)238Puccini—Manon Lescaut247La Bohème255Madam Butterfly270Rossini—The Barber of Seville.(Il Barbiere di Seviglia)282Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier. (The Rose-Bearer)289Elektra301Thomas—Mignon307Tschaikovsky—Eugene Onegin318Verdi—Ernani328Rigoletto337Il Trovatore, or the Gipsy's Vengeance.(The Troubadour)348La Traviata361The Masked Ball. (Un Ballo in Maschera)370Verdi—continuedAïda377Othello390Wagner—The Flying Dutchman.(Der Fliegende Holländer)397Tannhäuser406Lohengrin418Tristan and Isolda429The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.(Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)438The Nibelungs' Ring. (Der Ring der Nibelungen):—Part I. The Rhinegold. (Das Rheingold)449Part II. The Valkyrie. (Die Walküre)455Part III. Siegfried464Part IV. The Twilight of the Gods.(Die Götterdämmerung)472Parsifal480Wallace—Maritana495Lurline508Waltershausen—Colonel Chabert. (Oberst Chabert)513Wolf-Ferrari—The Jewels of the Madonna.(I Gioielli della Madonna)524Short Biographies of the ComposersAuber536Balfe536Beethoven537Bellini538Benedict538Bizet539Donizetti540Flotow541Gounod541Halèvy542Humperdinck542Leoncavallo543Mascagni544Meyerbeer544Mozart545Nicolai546Offenbach546Puccini548Rossini548Strauss549Thomas551Tschaikovsky551Verdi552Wagner553Wallace554Waltershausen555Wolf-Ferrari555Alphabetical List of the Operas557