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The Metropolitan Opera stories of the great operas / by John W. Freeman.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Metropolitan Opera Guild : W.W. Norton, c1984-c1997.Edition: 1st edDescription: 2 v. : ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0393018881 (v. [1])
  • 0393040518
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.1/3 19
LOC classification:
  • MT95 .M49 1984
Contents:
Volume 1: Postcard from Morocco/Dominick Argento -- Vanessa/Samuel Barber -- Duke Bluebeard's castle/Bela Bartok -- Fidelio/Ludwig van Beethoven -- La sonnambula; Norma; I Puritani/Vincenzo Bellini -- Wozzeck; Lulu/Alban Berg -- Les Troyens/Hector Berlioz -- Les pecheurs de Perles; carmen/Georges Bizet -- Regina/Marc Blitzstein -- Mefisofele/Arrigo Boito -- Prince Igor/Alexander Borodin -- Peter Grimes; Albert Herring; Billy Budd; The turn of the screw/Benjamin Britten -- Louise/Gustave Charpentier -- Medea/Luigi Cherubini -- Adriana Lecouvreur/Francesca Cilea -- Il matrimonio segreto/Domenico Cimarosa -- Pelleas et Melisande/Claude Debussy -- Lakme/Leo Delibes -- Anna Bolena; L'Elisir d'Amore; Lucrezia Borgia; Maria Stuarda; Lucia di Lammermoor; Roberto Devereux; La fille du Regiment; La favorita; Don Pasquale/Gaetano Donizetti -- Rusalka/Antonin Dvorak -- Martha/Friedrich van Flotow -- Susannah/Carlisle Floyd Porgy and Bess/George Gershwin -- Bomarzo/Alberto Ginastera -- Andrea Chenier/Umberto Giordano -- Ruslan and Ludmila/Mikhail Glinka -- Orfeo ed Euridice/Christoph Willibald von Gluck -- Faust; Romeo et Juliette/Charles Francois Gounod -- Giulio Cesare/George Frideric Handel -- Mathis der Maler/Paul Hindemith -- Hansel und Gretel/Engelbert Humperdink -- Jenufa; Kat'a Kabanova; The Makropoulos case/Leos Janacek -- Treemonisha/Scott Joplin -- Die tote stadt/Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- Die Lustige Witwe/Franz lehar -- Pagliacci/Ruggero Leoncavallo -- Cavalleria Rusticana; L'Amico Fritz/Pietro Mascagni Manon; Werther; Thais; Cendrillon/Jule Massenet -- The Medium; Amahl and the night visitors/Gian Carlo Menotti -- Les Huguenots; Le Prophete/Giacomo Meyerbeer -- L'Amore dei Tre Re/Italo Montmezzi -- Orfeo (La Favola d'Orfeo); L'incoronazione di Poppea/CLaudio Monteverdi -- The ballad of Baby Doe/Douglas Moore -- Idomeneo, Re Di Creta; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail; Le Nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi Fan Tutte; La Clemenza di Tito; Die Zauberflote/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Mary, Queen of Scots/Thea Musgrave -- Boris Godunov/Modest Mussorgsky -- Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor/Otto Nicolai -- Les Contes d'Hoffmann/Jacques Offenbach -- La Serva Padrona/Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- La Gioconda/AMilcare Ponchielli Les Mamelles de tiresias; Dialogues des Camelites; La Vois Humaine/Francis Poulenc -- The love for three oranges; War and peace/Sergei Prokofiev -- Manon Lescaut; La Boheme; Tosca; Madama buttergly; La Fanciulla del West; La Rondine; Il Trittico: Il Tabarro & Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi; Turandot/Giacomo Puccini -- Dido and Aeneas/Henry Purcell -- L'Heure Espagnole; L'enfant et les Sortileges/Maurice Ravel -- Le Coq d'Or/Nikolai rimsky-Korsakov -- L'Italiana in Algeri; Il Barbiere di Siviglia; la Cenerentola; Semiramide/Gioacchino Rossini -- Samson et Dalila/Camille Saint-Saens -- Moses und Aron/Arnold Schoenberg -- The Bartered bride/Bedrich Smetana -- Die fledermaus/Johann Strauss Salome; Elektra; Der Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Die Frau ohne Schatten; Arabella; Capriccio/Richard Strauss -- The Rake's progress/Igor Stravinsky -- Eugene Onegin; Pique Dame/Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- mignon/Ambroise Thomas -- The mother of us all/Virgil Thomson -- The midsummer marriage/Michael Tippett -- Nabucco; Ernani; Macbeth; Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La Traviata; I Vespri Siciliani; simon Boccanegra; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Forza del Destino; Don Carlo; Aida; Otello; Falstaff/Giuseppe Verdi -- Der Fliegende Hollander; Tannhauser; Lohengrim; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nurnber; Der ring des Nibelungen : Das Rheingold; Die Walkure; Sigfried; Gotterdammerung; parsifal/Richard Wagner -- Der Freischutz/Carl Maria von Weber -- Die Dreigroschenoper; aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny/ Kurt Weill -- Francesca da Rimini/Riccardo Zandonai
Volume 2: Nixon in China/John Adams -- Tiefland/Eugen D'Albert -- The Aspern papers/Dominick Argento -- Antony and Cleopatra/Samuel Barber -- Lizzie Borden/Jack Beeson -- Il Pirata; I Capuleti e i Montecchi; Beatrice de Tenda/Vincenzo Bellini -- Benvenuto Cellini; La Damnation de Faust; Beatrice et Benedict/Hector Berlioz -- Candide; A quiet place/Leonard Bernstein -- The rape of Lucretia; Gloriana; A midsummer night's dream; Death in Venice/Benjamin Britten -- Turandot; Doktor Faust/Ferruccio Busoni -- La Wally/Alfredo Catalani -- Le Roi Malgre Lui/Emmanuel Chabrier -- The tender land/ Aaron Copland -- The ghosts of Versailles/John Corigliano -- X: the life and times of Malcolm X/Anthony Davis -- A village Romeo and Juliet/Frederick Delius -- Ariane et Barbe-bleue/Paul Dukas -- The Vida Breve/Manuel de Falla -- Of mice and men/Carlisle Floyd -- The taming of the shrew/Vittorio Giannini -- Fedora/Umberto Giordano -- Satyagraha; Akhnaten; The voyage/Philip Glass -- A life for the Czar/Mikhail Glinka. Iphignie en Aulide; Alceste; Armide; Iphigenie en Tauride/Christoph Willibald von Gluck -- La Juive/Fromental Halevy -- Rinaldo; Rodelinda; Alcina; Serse; Samson; Semele/George Frideric Handel -- Der Junge Lord; The Bassarids/Hans Werner Henze -- THe excursion of Mr. Broucek; The cunning little vixen; From the house of the dead/Leos Janacek -- The last temptations/Joonas Kokkonen -- The good soldier Schweik/Robert Kurka -- Le Roi d'Ys/Edouard Lalo -- Atys/Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Iris/Pietro Mascagni -- Herodiade; Le Cid; Esclarmonde; Cherubin; Don Quichotte/Jules Massenet -- The Consul; The saint of Bleecker Street/Gian Carlo Menotti -- Robert le Diable; L'Africaine/Giacomo Meyerbeer -- Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria/Claudio Monteverdi -- La Finta Giardiniera/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Khovanshchina; The fair at Sorochintsy/Modest Mussorgsky -- Maskarade/Carl August Nielsen -- La Perichole/Jacques Offenback -- The beggar's opera/John Christopher Pepusch -- Palestrina/Hans Pfitzner. The Gambler; The fiery angel; Betrothal in a Monastery -- The Duenna/Sergei Prokofiev -- Hippolyte et Aricie; Les Indes Galantes; Castor et Pollux/Jean-Phillippe Rameau -- Sadko; The Czar's bride; The legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia/Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Tancredi; Il Turco in Italia; La Gazza Ladra; Mose in Egitto; La Donna del Lago; Il Viaggio a Reims; Le Siege de Corinthe; Le Comte Ory; Guillaume Tell/Gioachino Rossini -- The red line/Aulis Sallinen -- Erwartung/Arnold Schoenberg -- Der Ferne Klang/Franz Schreker -- The nose; Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District/Dmitri Shostakovich -- Dalibor/Bedrich Smetana -- La Vestale/Gaspare Spontini -- Der Zigeunerbaron/Johann Strauss II -- Intermezzo; Die Agyptische Helena; Die Schweigsame Frau; Daphne/Richard Strauss -- Le Rossignol; Oedipus Rex/Igor Stravinsky. King Roger/Karol Szymanowski -- Yolanta/Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Hamlet/Ambroise Thomas -- Four saints in three acts/Virgil Thomson -- King Priam; The knot garden/Michael Tippett -- Hugh the drover, or love in the stocks/Ralph Vaughn Williams -- I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata; I Due Foscari; Attila; Stiffelio/Giuseppe Verdi -- Rienzi/Richard Wagner -- Troilus and Cressida/William Walton -- The crucible/Robert Ward -- Oberon/Carl Maria von Weber -- Street scene/Kurt Weill -- Six characters in search of an author/Hugo Weisgall -- I Quatro Rusteghi; Il Segreto di Susanna/Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari -- Der Geburtstag der Infantin -- Der werg/Alexander Zemlinsky -- Die Soldaten/Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks MT95 .M49 1984 V.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001206290
Book Book NMC Library Stacks MT95 .M49 1984 V.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001305266

Volume 1: Postcard from Morocco/Dominick Argento -- Vanessa/Samuel Barber -- Duke Bluebeard's castle/Bela Bartok -- Fidelio/Ludwig van Beethoven -- La sonnambula; Norma; I Puritani/Vincenzo Bellini -- Wozzeck; Lulu/Alban Berg -- Les Troyens/Hector Berlioz -- Les pecheurs de Perles; carmen/Georges Bizet -- Regina/Marc Blitzstein -- Mefisofele/Arrigo Boito -- Prince Igor/Alexander Borodin -- Peter Grimes; Albert Herring; Billy Budd; The turn of the screw/Benjamin Britten -- Louise/Gustave Charpentier -- Medea/Luigi Cherubini -- Adriana Lecouvreur/Francesca Cilea -- Il matrimonio segreto/Domenico Cimarosa -- Pelleas et Melisande/Claude Debussy -- Lakme/Leo Delibes -- Anna Bolena; L'Elisir d'Amore; Lucrezia Borgia; Maria Stuarda; Lucia di Lammermoor; Roberto Devereux; La fille du Regiment; La favorita; Don Pasquale/Gaetano Donizetti -- Rusalka/Antonin Dvorak -- Martha/Friedrich van Flotow -- Susannah/Carlisle Floyd Porgy and Bess/George Gershwin -- Bomarzo/Alberto Ginastera -- Andrea Chenier/Umberto Giordano -- Ruslan and Ludmila/Mikhail Glinka -- Orfeo ed Euridice/Christoph Willibald von Gluck -- Faust; Romeo et Juliette/Charles Francois Gounod -- Giulio Cesare/George Frideric Handel -- Mathis der Maler/Paul Hindemith -- Hansel und Gretel/Engelbert Humperdink -- Jenufa; Kat'a Kabanova; The Makropoulos case/Leos Janacek -- Treemonisha/Scott Joplin -- Die tote stadt/Erich Wolfgang Korngold -- Die Lustige Witwe/Franz lehar -- Pagliacci/Ruggero Leoncavallo -- Cavalleria Rusticana; L'Amico Fritz/Pietro Mascagni Manon; Werther; Thais; Cendrillon/Jule Massenet -- The Medium; Amahl and the night visitors/Gian Carlo Menotti -- Les Huguenots; Le Prophete/Giacomo Meyerbeer -- L'Amore dei Tre Re/Italo Montmezzi -- Orfeo (La Favola d'Orfeo); L'incoronazione di Poppea/CLaudio Monteverdi -- The ballad of Baby Doe/Douglas Moore -- Idomeneo, Re Di Creta; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail; Le Nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi Fan Tutte; La Clemenza di Tito; Die Zauberflote/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Mary, Queen of Scots/Thea Musgrave -- Boris Godunov/Modest Mussorgsky -- Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor/Otto Nicolai -- Les Contes d'Hoffmann/Jacques Offenbach -- La Serva Padrona/Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- La Gioconda/AMilcare Ponchielli Les Mamelles de tiresias; Dialogues des Camelites; La Vois Humaine/Francis Poulenc -- The love for three oranges; War and peace/Sergei Prokofiev -- Manon Lescaut; La Boheme; Tosca; Madama buttergly; La Fanciulla del West; La Rondine; Il Trittico: Il Tabarro & Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi; Turandot/Giacomo Puccini -- Dido and Aeneas/Henry Purcell -- L'Heure Espagnole; L'enfant et les Sortileges/Maurice Ravel -- Le Coq d'Or/Nikolai rimsky-Korsakov -- L'Italiana in Algeri; Il Barbiere di Siviglia; la Cenerentola; Semiramide/Gioacchino Rossini -- Samson et Dalila/Camille Saint-Saens -- Moses und Aron/Arnold Schoenberg -- The Bartered bride/Bedrich Smetana -- Die fledermaus/Johann Strauss Salome; Elektra; Der Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Die Frau ohne Schatten; Arabella; Capriccio/Richard Strauss -- The Rake's progress/Igor Stravinsky -- Eugene Onegin; Pique Dame/Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- mignon/Ambroise Thomas -- The mother of us all/Virgil Thomson -- The midsummer marriage/Michael Tippett -- Nabucco; Ernani; Macbeth; Luisa Miller; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La Traviata; I Vespri Siciliani; simon Boccanegra; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Forza del Destino; Don Carlo; Aida; Otello; Falstaff/Giuseppe Verdi -- Der Fliegende Hollander; Tannhauser; Lohengrim; Tristan und Isolde; Die Meistersinger von Nurnber; Der ring des Nibelungen : Das Rheingold; Die Walkure; Sigfried; Gotterdammerung; parsifal/Richard Wagner -- Der Freischutz/Carl Maria von Weber -- Die Dreigroschenoper; aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny/ Kurt Weill -- Francesca da Rimini/Riccardo Zandonai

Volume 2: Nixon in China/John Adams -- Tiefland/Eugen D'Albert -- The Aspern papers/Dominick Argento -- Antony and Cleopatra/Samuel Barber -- Lizzie Borden/Jack Beeson -- Il Pirata; I Capuleti e i Montecchi; Beatrice de Tenda/Vincenzo Bellini -- Benvenuto Cellini; La Damnation de Faust; Beatrice et Benedict/Hector Berlioz -- Candide; A quiet place/Leonard Bernstein -- The rape of Lucretia; Gloriana; A midsummer night's dream; Death in Venice/Benjamin Britten -- Turandot; Doktor Faust/Ferruccio Busoni -- La Wally/Alfredo Catalani -- Le Roi Malgre Lui/Emmanuel Chabrier -- The tender land/ Aaron Copland -- The ghosts of Versailles/John Corigliano -- X: the life and times of Malcolm X/Anthony Davis -- A village Romeo and Juliet/Frederick Delius -- Ariane et Barbe-bleue/Paul Dukas -- The Vida Breve/Manuel de Falla -- Of mice and men/Carlisle Floyd -- The taming of the shrew/Vittorio Giannini -- Fedora/Umberto Giordano -- Satyagraha; Akhnaten; The voyage/Philip Glass -- A life for the Czar/Mikhail Glinka. Iphignie en Aulide; Alceste; Armide; Iphigenie en Tauride/Christoph Willibald von Gluck -- La Juive/Fromental Halevy -- Rinaldo; Rodelinda; Alcina; Serse; Samson; Semele/George Frideric Handel -- Der Junge Lord; The Bassarids/Hans Werner Henze -- THe excursion of Mr. Broucek; The cunning little vixen; From the house of the dead/Leos Janacek -- The last temptations/Joonas Kokkonen -- The good soldier Schweik/Robert Kurka -- Le Roi d'Ys/Edouard Lalo -- Atys/Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Iris/Pietro Mascagni -- Herodiade; Le Cid; Esclarmonde; Cherubin; Don Quichotte/Jules Massenet -- The Consul; The saint of Bleecker Street/Gian Carlo Menotti -- Robert le Diable; L'Africaine/Giacomo Meyerbeer -- Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria/Claudio Monteverdi -- La Finta Giardiniera/Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Khovanshchina; The fair at Sorochintsy/Modest Mussorgsky -- Maskarade/Carl August Nielsen -- La Perichole/Jacques Offenback -- The beggar's opera/John Christopher Pepusch -- Palestrina/Hans Pfitzner. The Gambler; The fiery angel; Betrothal in a Monastery -- The Duenna/Sergei Prokofiev -- Hippolyte et Aricie; Les Indes Galantes; Castor et Pollux/Jean-Phillippe Rameau -- Sadko; The Czar's bride; The legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia/Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Tancredi; Il Turco in Italia; La Gazza Ladra; Mose in Egitto; La Donna del Lago; Il Viaggio a Reims; Le Siege de Corinthe; Le Comte Ory; Guillaume Tell/Gioachino Rossini -- The red line/Aulis Sallinen -- Erwartung/Arnold Schoenberg -- Der Ferne Klang/Franz Schreker -- The nose; Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District/Dmitri Shostakovich -- Dalibor/Bedrich Smetana -- La Vestale/Gaspare Spontini -- Der Zigeunerbaron/Johann Strauss II -- Intermezzo; Die Agyptische Helena; Die Schweigsame Frau; Daphne/Richard Strauss -- Le Rossignol; Oedipus Rex/Igor Stravinsky. King Roger/Karol Szymanowski -- Yolanta/Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Hamlet/Ambroise Thomas -- Four saints in three acts/Virgil Thomson -- King Priam; The knot garden/Michael Tippett -- Hugh the drover, or love in the stocks/Ralph Vaughn Williams -- I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata; I Due Foscari; Attila; Stiffelio/Giuseppe Verdi -- Rienzi/Richard Wagner -- Troilus and Cressida/William Walton -- The crucible/Robert Ward -- Oberon/Carl Maria von Weber -- Street scene/Kurt Weill -- Six characters in search of an author/Hugo Weisgall -- I Quatro Rusteghi; Il Segreto di Susanna/Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari -- Der Geburtstag der Infantin -- Der werg/Alexander Zemlinsky -- Die Soldaten/Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

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