A BOOK OF OPERAS
THEIR HISTORIES, THEIR PLOTS, AND THEIR MUSIC
BY HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL
TO LUGIEN WULSIN, AN OLD FRIEND
"Old friends are best."
--SELDEN.
"I love everything that's old,--
old friends, old times, old manners
,
old books, old wine."
--GOLDSMITH.
"Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust!
Old authors to read!"
--MELCHIOR.
CONTENTS
Chapter I "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"
First performance of Italian opera in the
United States--
Production of
Rossini's opera in Rome, London, Paris, and New York
--
Thomas Phillipps
and his English version
--Miss Leesugg and Mrs. Holman
--Emanuel Garcia
and his troupe
--
Malibran
--
Early operas in America
--
Colman's "Spanish
Barber"--
Other Fi
garo operas
--How Rossini came to Write "Il Barbiere"
--
The story of a fiasco
--Garcia and his Spanish song--"Segui, o caro"
--
Giorgi
-
Righetti
--
The plot of the opera
--
The overture--"Ecco ridente
in cielo"--
"Una voce poco fa,"
--
Rossini and Patti
--
The lesson s
cene
and what singers have done with it--
Grisi, Alboni, Catalani, Bosio,
Gassier, Patti, Sembrich, Melba, and Viardot
--An echo of Haydn.
Chapter II "Le Nozze di Figaro"
Beaumarchais and his Figaro comedies
--"Le Nozze" a sequel to "Il
Barbiere"
--
Mozart an
d Rossini--
Their operas compared--
Opposition
to Beaumarchais's "Marriage de Figaro"
--
Moral grossness of Mozart's
opera
--A relic of feudalism
--Humor of the horns
--
A merry overture
--
The story of the opera--
Cherubino,--"Non so piu cosa son"
--
Benucci and the
air "Non piu andrai"
--"Voi che sapete"--
A marvellous
finale
--The song to the zephyr
--
A Spanish fandango
--"Deh vieni non
tardar."
Chapter III "Die Zauberflote"
The oldest German opera current in America
--
Beethoven's appreciation
of Mozart's opera
--Its Teutonism
--
Otto Jahn's estimate
--
Papageno, the
German Punch
--
Emanuel Schikaneder
--
Wieland and the original of the
story of the opera
--
How "Die Zanberflote" came to be written
--The
story of "Lulu"
--Mozart and freemasonry
--
The overture to the opera
--
The fugue theme and a theme from a sonata by Clementi
--
The opera's
play--"O Isis und Osiris"--"Hellish rage" and fiorituri--
The song of
the Two Men in Armor
--
Goethe and the libretto of "Die Zauberflote"
--
How the opera should be viewed.
Chapter IV "Don Giovanni"
The oldest Italian operas in the American repertory
--
Mozart as an
influence
--
What great composers have said about "Don Giovanni,"
--
Beethoven
--
Rossini
--Gounod
--Wagner--
History of the opera--Da Ponte's
pilferings--Bertati and Gazzaniga's "Convitato di Pietra"--
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