OPERA & OPERA AND OPERETTA LIBRETTI
Miscellaneous libretti, filed alphabetically by title, in 5 boxes (3 linear feet). Each folder contains at least one English translation, but many have multiple and varied versions.BOX 1 | ||
TITLE | MUSIC | LIBRETTO |
Acis and Galatea | Handel, George Frideric | Gay, John, Alexander Pope and John Hughes |
L'Africaine | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | Scribe, Eugene |
Aida | Verdi, Giuseppe | Ghislanzoni, A. |
Alcestis | Gluck, Christoph Willibald von | Calzabigi, Ranieri de |
Alcina | Handel, George Frideric | Marchi, A. |
Amahl and the Night Visitors | Menotti, Gian-Carlo | Menotti, Gian-Carlo |
L'Amore dei Tre Re | Montemezzi, Italo | Benelli, Sem |
Andrea Chenier | Giordano, Umberto | Illica, Luigi |
Arabella | Strauss, Richard | Hofmannsthal, Hugo von |
Un Ballo in Maschera | Verdi, Giuseppe | Somma, Antonio |
The Barber of Seville | Rossini, Gioacchino | Sterbini, Cesare |
The Bartered Bride | Smetana, Friedrich | Jones, Graham |
The Bells of Corneville | Planquette, Robert | Gabat, Clairville and Charles |
La Boheme | Puccini, Giacomo | Giacosa, G. and Luigi Illica |
The Bohemian Girl | Balfe, M.W. | Bunn, Alfred |
The Bostonians | Offenbach, Jacques | Weil, Oscar |
BOX 2 | ||
TITLE | MUSIC | LIBRETTO |
Candide | Bernstein, Leonard | Wilbur, Richard, John Latouche and Dorothy Parker |
Carmen | Bizet, George | Meilhac, Henri and Ludovic Halevy |
Cavalier Americana | Souvaine, Henry | McEvoy, J.P. |
Cavalleria Rusticana | Mascagni, Pietro | Targioni-Tozzetti, Giovanni and Guido Menasci |
Cleopatra | Massenet, Jules | Payen, Louis |
Conchita | Zandonai, Riccardo | Vaucaire, Maurizio and Carlo Zangarini |
Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Offenbach, Jacques | Barbier, Jules |
Le Coq D'Or | Rimsky-Korsakov, N. | Bielsky, V. |
The Daughter of the Regiment | Donizetti, Gaetano | Saint Georges, J.H.Vernoy de and F. Bayard |
Dejanire | Saint-Saens, Camille | Gallet, Louis |
Dido and Aeneas | Purcell, Henry | Tate, Nahum |
Dinorah | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | Barbier, Jules and Michael Carre |
Don Pasquale | Donizetti, Gaetano | Donizetti, Gaetano and Giacomo Ruffini |
Elegy for Young Lovers | Henze, Hans Werner | Auden, W.H. and Chester Kallman |
Eugene Oneghin | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch and Konstantin Shilovsky |
BOX 3 | ||
TITLE | MUSIC | LIBRETTO |
Faust | Gounod, Charles | Barbier, Jules and Michael Carre |
La Favorita | Donizetti, Gaetano | Royer, Alphonse and Gustave Vaez |
Fidelio | Beethoven, Ludwig van | Sonnleithner, Joseph and Georg Friedrich Treitschke |
La Fiera di Sorocinzi | Moussorgsky, M. | Gogol. N.V. |
Die Fledermaus | Strauss, Johann | Haffner, Carl and Richard Genee |
La Forza Del Destino | Verdi, Giuseppe | Piave, Francesco Maria |
Gianni Schicchi | Puccini, Giacomo | Forzano, Gioacchino |
La Gioconda | Ponchielli, A. | Gorrio, Tobia |
Girofle and Girofla | Le Cocq, Charles | Le Cocq, Charles |
Herodias | Massenet, Jules | Milliet, M.M.P., H.Gremont and A. Zanardini |
Les Huguenots | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | Scribe, Eugene |
Iris | Mascagni, Pietro | Illica, Luigi |
Konigskinder | Humperdinck, Engelbert | Rosmer, Ernst |
Lodoletta | Mascagni, Pietro | Forzano, C. |
Lohengrin | Wagner, Richard | Wagner, Richard |
Loreley | Catalani, A. | D'Ormeville, Carlo and Zanardini, A. |
Louise | Charpentier, Gustave | Charpentier, Gustave |
Lucia di Lammermoor | Donizetti, Gaetano | Cammarano, Salvatore |
Madame Butterfly | Puccini, Giacomo | Illica, Luigi and G. Giacosa |
Madame Sans-Gene | Giordano, Umberto | Simoni, Renato |
The Magic Flute | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Schikaneder, Emanuel and Carl Ludwig Giesecke |
Les Mamelles de Tiresias | Poulenc, Francis | Apollinaire, Guillaume |
Manon | Massenet, M. | Meilhac, H. and Ph. Gille |
BOX 4 | ||
TITLE | MUSIC | LIBRETTO |
The Marriage of Figaro | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Ponte, Lorenzo aa |
Martha | Flotow, F. von | Friedrich, W. |
The Master Singers of Nuremberg | Wagner, Richard | Wagner, Richard |
The Medium | Menotti, Gian-Carlo | Menotti, Gian-Carlo |
Mefistofele | Boito, Arrigo | Boito, Arrigo |
Mignon | Thomas, Ambroise | Barbier, Jules and Michel Carre |
Monna Vanna | Fevrier, Henry | Maeterlinck, Maurice |
Mourning Becomes Electra | Levy, Marvin David | Butler, Henry |
Norma | Bellini, Vincenzo | Romani, Felice |
Le Nozze di Figaro | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Ponte, Lorenzo da |
L'Oracolo | Leoni, Franco | Zanoni, Camillo |
Pagliacci | Leoncavallo, R. | Leoncavallo, R. |
Parsifal | Wagner, Richard | Wagner, Richard |
Pelleas and Melisande | Debussy, Claude | Debussy, Claude |
La Perichole | Offenbach, Jacques | Meilhac, Henri and Ludovic Halevy |
Peter Ibbetson | Taylor, Deems | Collier, Constance and Deems Taylor |
The Postillion of Lonjumeau | Adam, Adolphe | Adam, Adolphe |
Princess Snowflake | Wareing, Herbert W. | Postgate, Isa J. |
The Rape of Lucretia | Britten, Benjamin | Duncan, Ronald |
Rigoletto | Verdi, Giuseppe | Piave, Francesco Maria |
Der Rosenkavalier | Strauss, Richard | Hofmannsthal, Hugo von |
BOX 5 | ||
TITLE | MUSIC | LIBRETTO |
Salome | Strauss, Richard | Strauss, Richard |
Samson | Handel, George Frideric | Handel, George Frideric |
Schirin und Gertraude | Graener, Paul | Hardt, Ernst |
Siegfried | Wagner, Richard | Wagner, Richard |
Simon Boccanegra | Verdi, Giuseppe | Piave, F.M. and Boito, A. |
The Song of Hiawatha | Stoepel, Robert | Longfellow, Henry Wardsworth |
La Sonnambula | Bellina,Vincenzo | Romani, Felice |
Tannhauser | Wagner, Richard | Wagner, Richard |
Thais | Massenet, Jules | Gallet, Louis |
Tosca | Puccini, Giacomo | Sardou, V., L. Illica and G. Giacosa |
La Traviata | Verdi, Giuseppe | Piave, Francesco Piave |
Tristan und Isolde | Wagner, Richard | Wagner, Richard |
The Trojans | Berlioz, Hector | Dent, Edward J. |
Il Trovatore | Verdi, Giuseppe | Commarano, S. |
The Vagabond | Leroux, Xavier | Richepin, Jean |
The Vagabond King | Friml, Rudolf | Post, W.H. and Brian Hooker |
Die Versellte Einfalt | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Rudolph, A. |
Victor, The Blue Stocking | Bernicat-Messager | Weil, Oscar |
Die Walkuere | Wagner, Richard | Wagner, Richard |
Werther | Massenet, Jules | Blau, M. Edouard, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann |
Willie Stark | Floyd, Carlisle | Floyd, Carlisle |
Zaza | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero |