BARFUSSELE in two Pictures with a Prelude by RICHARD HEUBERGER. Words by VICTOR LEON from AUERBACH'S Story. The young composer's opera is a musical village-story, simple and well a...
In three acts by GLUCK. Text by RANIERO DI CALZABIGI. This opera is the oldest of all we possess in our repertoire. Gluck had already written more than forty operas, of which we do...
In three acts by CARL GRAMMANN. Text after C. CAMP'S poem of the same name. Tableaux and mise en scene after SCHWIND'S composition. The composer of this opera is known in the music...
TIEFLAND. A in two acts and a Prelude by EUGENE D'ALBERT. Text after A. Guivera by RUDOLPH LOTHAR. With this work the gifted composer has gained a footing, which promises to be per...
DIE NUeRNBERGER PUPPE In one act by A. ADAM. Text by LEUVEN and BEAUPLAN, translated into German by ERNST PASQUE. This Operette, though almost buried in oblivion, has been revived...
In three acts by FR. SMETANA. Libretto by K. SABINA. German text by MAX KALBECK. Poor Smetana! Nature had put on his brow the stamp of genius, but he never lived to see his glory....
In three acts by RICHARD WAGNER. The music to this drama is deemed by connoisseurs the most perfect ever written by Wagner, but it needs a fine and highly cultivated understanding...
In two acts by KARL GRAMANN. Text by T. KERSTEN. Ingrid is a musical composition of considerable interest, the local tone and colouring being so well hit. It is a Norwegian picture...
Tragedy of a Japanese woman in three acts after John L. Long and David Belasco by L. ILLICA and G. GIACOSA. Music by GIACOMO PUCCINI. Though Puccini has not reached the musical hei...
In three acts by GLUCK. Text of the original rearranged by R. WAGNER. This opera, though it does not stand from the point of view of the artist on the same level with Iphigenia in...
In three acts by KARL VON PERFALL. Text after Hertz's poem: Henri of Suabia by FRANZ GRANDOUR. This opera composed recently by the Superintendent of the Royal Opera in Munich, has...
In four acts by J. MASSENET. Text by HENRY MEILHAC and PHILIPPE GILLE. The subject of this opera is based on Prevost's famous novel "Manon Lescaut". The libretto is much weaker tha...
In one Act. Libretto by A. VON STEIGENTESCH (end of 18th century). Arranged by FERDINAND COUNT SPORCK. With Music by EUGENE D'ALBERT. By this opera the young composer, whose previo...
DIE KOeNIGIN VON SABA In four acts by CHARLES GOLDMARK. Text by MOSENTHAL. Charles Goldmark was born in Hungary in 1852. He received his musical education in Vienna. The well-known...
Adapted from HENRY MURGER'S VIE DE BOHEME. Music by GIACOMO PUCCINI. This opera was composed in 1896, and the music is of a far higher order than that of "La Tosca", particularly t...
In two acts. With Text and Music by WILHELM KIENZL. The author has learnt a great deal since the days, in which he composed Urvasi. His music has become more original and more inde...
In five acts by EDMUND KRETSCHMER. Text by MOSENTHAL. The composer of this opera evidently belongs to the most talented of our days, and it is no wonder that his two operas "Henry...
FEUERSNOT A Lyric Poem (Singgedicht) in one act by ERNST VON WOLZOGEN. Music by RICHARD STRAUSS. The new Opera of the highly gifted young Bavarian composer was represented for the...
In three acts by MOZART. Text after BRETZNER by G. STEPHANIE. Mozart modestly called this opera a Vaudeville (in German: Singspiel). They were the fashion towards the end of the la...
In three acts by GAETANO DONIZETTI. Text from Scott's romance by SALVATORE CAMMERANO. This opera is Donizetti's master-piece and except his "Figlia del reggimento" and "Lucrezia Bo...
In three acts by CHARLES GOLDMARK. Text by SIEGFRIED LIPINER. This latest creation of the talented composer at once proved itself a success, when produced for the first time in the...
(LO SPEZIALE.) Comic Opera by JOSEF HAYDN (1768). After a sleep of 125 years in the dust of Prince Esterhazy's archives at Eisenstadt, Dr. Hirschfeld received permission from Princ...
In three acts by CARL GOLDMARK. Text after Dickens' tale by M. WILLNER. With this opera Goldmark has entered a novel way in composing. He has renounced all sensational effects and...
In five acts by VICTOR NESSLER. Text by FR. HOFMANN from JULIUS WOLFF'S legend of the same name. Without any preliminary introduction to the musical world Nessler wrote this opera...
In three acts by ALBERT LORTZING. Text adapted from the French. After a long interval of quiet Lortzing's charming music seems to be brought to honor again and no wonder.--The ears...
In five acts by CH. GOUNOD. Text by BARBIER and CARRE. This highly favored opera by Gounod presents much that is worthy of admiration, though it does not rise to the high level of...
In three acts by OTTO NICOLAI. Text by MOSENTHAL. This charming opera has achieved the fame of its composer, of whom very little is known, except that he is the author of this real...
CZAR AND ZIMMERMANN In three acts by LORTZING. This charming little opera had even more success than Lortzing's other compositions; it is a popular opera in the best sense of the w...