In three acts by C. M. v. WEBER. After WEBER'S manuscripts and designs, and TH. HELL'S textbook. The musical part completed by GUSTAV MAHLER, the dramatic part by CARL VON WEBER. T...
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 la...
DER TROMPETER VON SAeKKINGEN. In three acts with a prelude by VICTOR NESSLER. Text by RUDOLF BUNGE after SCHEFFEL'S poem. Seldom in our days is an opera such a complete success in...
In three acts by JULES BARBIER. Music by JACQUES OFFENBACH. In this opera the composer far surpasses all his other compositions. It is his swan's song, for he composed it in the su...
Lyric Scenes in three acts by P. J. TSCHAIKOWSKY. Text after Puschkin's poem of the same name. Tschaikowsky's opera, long known and so intensely popular throughout Russia, that man...
In two acts by ROSSINI. This opera may be called a miracle of Rossini's creation, as it not only is his best work, but was written by him in a fortnight, a performance nearly incre...
In three acts with a prelude, by HEINRICH MARSCHNER. Text by EDUARD DEVRIENT. The text to this opera, which was written by the celebrated actor and sent to Marschner anonymously, s...
In five acts by MEYERBEER. Text by SCRIBE and DELAVIGNE. Though the text, which embodies the well-known story of Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy, is often weak and involved, Mey...
DIE ZAUBERFLOeTE In two acts by MOZART. Text by SCHIKANEDER. This last opera of Mozart's, written only a few months before his death, approaches so near to perfection, that one alm...
In three acts by WAGNER. This opera carries us back to the middle of the 16th century and the persons whom we meet are all historical. Amongst the tradesmen, whose rhyme-making has...
In three acts. Text and Music by PETER CORNELIUS. After an interval of more than thirty years the Dresden Opera has paid a debt of honour to the dead composer and gave his finest a...
In three acts by BOIELDIEU. Text by SCRIBE. Boieldieu is for the French almost what Mozart was for the German. This opera especially may be called classic, so deliberate and carefu...
In three acts by RICHARD WAGNER. This is the most popular of all Wagner's operas. No need to say more about its music, which is so generally known and admired, that every child in...
In three acts by AUBER. Text by SCRIBE. This is one of the most charming comic operas, which were ever written by this master. Graceful archness and elegance of style are its chara...
In five acts by GIACOMO MEYERBEER. Text by SCRIBE. This is the best opera of this fertile composer, and one with which only his "Robert le diable" can compare. The music is not onl...
In three acts by RICHARD WAGNER. With this opera begins a new era in the history of the German theatre. Tannhaeuser is more a drama than an opera, every expression in it is highly...
In three acts by WAGNER. DER FLIEGENDE HOLLAeNDER. This fine opera is Wagner's second work, which he composed in direst need, when living at Paris with his young wife. The songs, w...
In one act by KARL GRAMANN IRRLICHT Text by KURT GEUCKE. With "Irrlicht" the composer takes a step towards verisme; both, subject and music are terribly realistic, though without t...
In two acts by MOZART. Text by DA PONTE. Don Juan is Mozart's most beautiful opera; we may even say, that it is the greatest work of this kind, which was ever written by a German m...
VIOLETTA In three acts by VERDI. Text taken from the French by PIAVE. The original of the libretto is Dumas' celebrated novel "La dame aux camelias." The opera is like all of Verdi...
DER LIEBESKAMPF In two acts. Music and Text by ERIK MEYER-HELMUND. This young composer, whose first opera was brought on the stage in Dresden in the spring of 1892, has been known...
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".--...
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 ha...
DIE SCHOeNEN VON FOGARAS. In three acts by ALFRED GRUeNFELD. Words by VICTOR LEON, founded on the Hungarian novel of MIKSZATH, "Szehistye, the village without Men". This opera was...
In three acts by ANTON RUBINSTEIN. Text by MOSENTHAL, taken from Otto Ludwig's drama of the same name. This opera when it appeared, created a great sensation in the musical world....
In three acts by ALBAN FORSTER. Text by RUDOLF BUNGE. The first work of this composer was produced on the stage of the Royal Dresden theatre on the twelfth of October 1889 and was...
In three acts by HENRY MARSCHNER. Text by W. A. WOHLBRUeCK. The subject of this opera is the well-known romance of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. The poet understood pretty well how...
LE ROI L'A DIT. In three acts by LEON DELIBES. Text by EDMOND GONDINET. It is impossible to imagine music more charming or more full of grace and piquancy, than that which we find...
A Festival-Play in three days and a fore-evening by RICHARD WAGNER. THE RHINEGOLD. The grand dramatic work, which cannot any longer with justice be called an opera, differing as it...
In two acts by HEINRICH MARSCHNER. Text by W. A. WOHLBRUeCK. This opera had long fallen into oblivion, when Hofrath Schuch of Dresden was struck with the happy idea of resuscitatin...