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149. The Gipsy Baron 150. The Merry War Strauss (Richard) 152. Elektra 151. The Queens Lace Handkerchief 153. Feuersnot 154. Salome Sullivan 155. The Gondoliers 156. Haddon Hall 157. H.M.S. Pinafore 158. Iolanthe 159. The Mikado 160. Patience 161. The Pirates of Penzance 162. Princess Ida 163. Ruddygore 164. The Sorcerer 165. Utopia, Limited Suppé 167. Boccaccio Thomas 168. Hamlet 166. The Yeomen of the Guard 169. Mignon Tchaikowsky 170. Eugène Onegin Verdi 171. Aïda 172. Don Carlos 173. Ernani 174. Falstaff 175. The Masked Ball 176. Othello 177. Rigoletto 178. La Traviata 179. Il Trovatore
Wagner (Richard) 180. The Flying Dutchman 181. Lohengrin 182. The Master-singers of Nuremberg 183. Parsifal 184. Rienzi 185. The Ring - (Part 1) - The Rhinegold 186. (Part 2) - The Valkyrie 187. (Part 3) - Siegfried 188. (Part 4) - The Dusk of the Gods 189. Tannhäuser 190. Tristan and Isolda Wagner (Siegfried) 191. Bearskin 192. The Kobold Wallace 193. The Amber Witch 194. Lurline 195. Maritana Weber 196. Euryanthe 197. Der Freischütz 198. Oberon 199. Preciosa 200. Silvana 1. THE NUREMBERG DOLL <strong>Opera</strong> Comique in One Act By Adolphe Charles Adam Libretto By Leuven and Beauplan First Produced Paris, 1852 Chief Characters Bertha, Heinrich, Cornelius (The Miser), Benjamin THE scene of this opera is laid in Nuremberg, where an old miser, Cornelius, a toy-shop owner, being un-able to obtain a sufficiently beautiful and virtuous wife for his very stupid son, Benjamin, has made a mechanical Doll, human size, which he hopes to endow with life by means of magic learned from the book of Dr Faustus the deed to be done some dark and stormy night.
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Page 3 and 4: 56. Iphigenia in Aulis 57. Iphigeni
Page 5: Offenbach 118. La Belle Hélène Pa
Page 9 and 10: Madame de la Tour, and wishing to p
Page 11 and 12: his suspicions thus confirmed, and
Page 13 and 14: 7. THE CROWN DIAMONDS Opera Comique
Page 15 and 16: challenges the Marquis to fight wit
Page 17 and 18: Bertrand; and the unhappy young wif
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Page 25 and 26: establish his identity. When the Ca
Page 27 and 28: Romantic Opera in One Act By George
Page 29 and 30: ings forth the hidden treasure, tog
Page 31 and 32: Libretto By Mosenthal, adapted from
Page 33 and 34: 26. ODYSSEUS' RETURN Grand Opera in
Page 35 and 36: y Despoina, who has managed to esca
Page 37 and 38: insults upon her, she is unable to
Page 39 and 40: ing the lady to be La Duclos, they
Page 41 and 42: lovers, asks the irate father to co
Page 43 and 44: 35. THE KING HAS SAID IT Opera Comi
Page 45 and 46: moment,. the angry Nilakantha appea
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Page 49 and 50: takes her to some luxurious rooms,
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Page 53 and 54: Court, where he sees Lady Henrietta
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50. NANON Opera Comique in Three Ac
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part). Elizabeth is horrorstruck at
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condemned to death. He has, however
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obtained the love she craved for, t
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Grand Opera in Three Acts By Christ
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stand with his sweetheart, May. The
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plot having been evolved by the lib
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Gringoire suddenly appears with Pho
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with remorse and grief, since her l
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Bertram becomes more jealous of him
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calling himself Samuel, and thus ma
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eloved ones are in greater danger t
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74 THE FOLKUNGS Grand Opera in Five
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elease of the noble prisoner; and F
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78. MAIA Opera in Three Acts By R.
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First Produced Hamburg, 1846 Chief
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Here he sees Undine, a lovely but m
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victim; and whilst the flames leap
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defend her; and though Brian, now r
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88. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Tragic Ope
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trick which has been played upon hi
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is overlooked by the King, who best
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the convent as a brother and re-nou
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since he has the means to provide h
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Chief Characters Charlotte, Sophia,
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two of the inhabitants, a male and
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etween the Catholics and Huguenots
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and despairing Bertha to the tyrant
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lovers. 106. THE STAR OF THE NORTH
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108. MUGUETTE Opera Comique in Four
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fact that he is pursued by another
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however, their trials are not over,
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determination to die rather than be
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himself an arrant coward. The situa
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good looks and gallant bearing of a
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In Act 2 we are taken to Venice, wh
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it to the test. When he has gone, R
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her. The disguised Prince obeys wit
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First Produced Turin, February, 189
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jealous anger of her rough friends
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husband, and trustfully expecting h
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131. LA TOSCA Tragic Opera in Three
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sent to tempt him from is enterpris
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her transitory suspicions, and next
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character, and is herself leading a
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shackles of Rome and proclaims hims
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Opera in Three Acts By Max Schillin
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Chief Characters Mary, Agnes Micha,
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146. JESSONDA Opera in Three Acts B
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een sentenced to a weeks imprisonme
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151. THE QUEENS LACE HANDKERCHIEF O
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chamber window she listens to his p
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lineage, they are desperately poor
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Comic Opera in Two Acts By Sir Arth
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Chief Characters Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sin
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everyday young man " at once, on pa
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disguise, however, is presently pen
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considerations of rank, wealth or a
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Leonard, who manages to slip out of
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In Act 5 the funeral procession of
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in this beautiful and charming lady
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a plan to elope with the willing El
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him. Adelia, on searching for the m
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and he bribes Sparafucile, a bravo,
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prisoner and thrust into a dungeon
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scheming Telramund, whom he defeats
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183. PARSIFAL Sacred Festival Music
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Loving One who shall crush his own
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symbol of Evil; and in revenge for
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leaping flames-to be awakened by th
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as they exultingly carry it away a
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from Brangaena, and come at once to
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match, unable to conquer her passio
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THE story is founded on an old Germ
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fearing she has been deceived. When
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to be Chief Ranger, but also covets
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First Produced Berlin, March, 1821
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Aïda Verdi Alceste Gluck Amber Wit
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Gioconda, La Ponchielli Gipsy Baron
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Mikado, The Sullivan Moloch Schilli
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Trumpeter of Säkkingen, The Nessle
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