The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera (85 page)

• Nabucco
  1
  
• Night
  at
  the
  Chinese
  Opera,
  A
  1
  
• Nightingale,
  The
  1
  
• Nixon in China
  1
  
• Norma
  1
  
• Nozze di Figaro, Le
  1
  

• Oedipus Rex
  1
  
• Oklahoma!
  1
  
• Orfeo
  1
  
• Orfeo ed Euridice
  1
  
• Orphée aux Enfers
  1
  
• Orpheus in the Underworld
  1
  
• Otello
  1
  

• Pagliacci
  1
  
• Parsifal
  1
  
• Patience
  1
  
• Paul
  Bunyan
  1
  
• Pêcheurs de Perles, Les
  1
  
• Pelléas et Mélisande
  1
  
• Perchance
  to
  Dream
  1
  
• Peter Grimes
  1
  
• Pilgrim’s
  Progress,
  The
  1
  2
  
• Pirates of Penzance, The
  1
  
• Porgy and Bess
  1
  
• Powder
  Her
  Face
  1
  
• Prince
  Igor
  1
  
• Prinz
  von
  Homburg,
  Der
  1
  
• Prophète,
  Le
  1
  
• Prodigal
  Son,
  The
  1
  
• Punch
  and
  Judy
  1
  
• Puritani, I
  1
  

• Queen of Spades, The
  1
  
• Quiet
  Place,
  A
  1
  

• Rake’s Progress, The
  1
  
• Rape of Lucretia, The
  1
  
• Red
  Line,
  The
  1
  
• Regina
  1
  
• Renard
  1
  
• Return of Ulysses to his Homeland, The
  1
  
• Rienzi
  1
  
• Rigoletto
  1
  
• Ring des Nibelungen, Der
  1
  
• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
  1
  
• Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, Il
  1
  
• Roberto
  Devereux
  1
  
• Rodelinda
  1
  
• Roméo et Juliette
  1
  
• Rondine,
  La
  1
  
• Rosenkavalier, Der
  1
  
• Rusalka
  1
  
• Ruslan
  and
  Ludmila
  1
  

• Saint
  François
  d’Assise
  1
  
• Salome
  1
  
• Samson et Dalila
  1
  
• Savitri
  1
  
• Semele
  1
  
• Semiramide
  1
  
• Serva
  Padrona,
  La
  1
  
• Show
  Boat
  1
  
• Siège
  de
  Corinthe,
  Le
  1
  
• Silver
  Tassie,
  The
  1
  
• Simon Boccanegra
  1
  
• Sir
  John
  in
  Love
  1
  
• Snow
  Maiden,
  The
  1
  
• Soldaten,
  Die
  1
  
• Sorcerer,
  The
  1
  ,
  2
  
• South
  Pacific
  1
  
• Streetcar
  Named
  Desire,
  A
  1
  
• Student
  Prince,
  The
  1
  
• Susannah
  1
  
• Sweeney Todd
  1
  

• Tancredi
  1
  
• Tannhäuser
  1
  
• Tender
  Land,
  The
  1
  
• Thieving
  Magpie,
  The
  1
  
• Threpenny Opera, The
  1
  
• Tosca
  1
  
• Tote
  Stadt,
  Die
  1
  
• Traviata, La
  1
  
• Tristan und Isolde
  1
  
• Trittico, Il
  1
  
• Trojans, The
  1
  
• Trouble
  in
  Tahiti
  1
  
• Trovatore, Il
  1
  
• Troyens, Les
  1
  
• Turandot
  1
  
• Turn of the Screw, The
  1
  

• Vanessa
  1
  
• Venus
  and
  Adonis
  1
  
• Viaggio
  a
  Reims,
  Il
  1
  

• Wally,
  La
  1
  
• War and Peace
  1
  
• Werther
  1
  
• West
  Side
  Story
  1
  
• William Tell
  1
  
• Where
  the
  Wild
  Things
  Are
  1
  
• Wozzeck
  1
  

• Xerxes
  1
  

• Zauberflöte, Die
  1
  
• Zigeunerbaron,
  Der
  1
  

Index of Composers

• Adams, John
  1
  

• Bartók, Béla
  1
  
• Beethoven, Ludwig van
  1
  
• Bellini, Vincenzo
  1
  
• Berg, Alban
  1
  
• Berlioz, Hector
  1
  
• Bernstein, Leonard
  1
  
• Birtwistle, Harrison
  1
  
• Bizet, Georges
  1
  
• Britten, Benjamin
  1
  

• Cavalli, Francesco
  1
  

• Debussy, Claude
  1
  
• Donizetti, Gaetano
  1
  
• Dvořák, Antonin
  1
  

• Floyd, Carlisle
  1
  

• Gershwin, George
  1
  
• Giordano, Umberto
  1
  
• Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
  1
  
• Gounod, Charles
  1
  

• Handel, George Frideric
  1
  
• Henze, Hans Werner
  1
  
• Humperdinck, Engelbert
  1
  

• Janáček, Leoš
  1
  

• Lehár, Franz
  1
  
• Leoncavallo, Ruggero
  1
  

• Mascagni, Pietro
  1
  
• Massenet, Jules
  1
  
• Menotti, Giancarlo
  1
  
• Monteverdi, Claudio
  1
  
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  1
  
• Mussorgsky, Modest
  1
  

• Offenbach, Jacques
  1
  ,
  2
  

• Poulenc, Francis
  1
  
• Prokofiev, Sergei
  1
  
• Puccini, Giacomo
  1
  
• Purcell, Henry
  1
  

• Ravel, Maurice
  1
  
• Rossini, Gioachino
  1
  

• Saint-Saëns, Camille
  1
  
• Schoenberg, Arnold
  1
  
• Shostakovich, Dmitri
  1
  
• Smetana, Bedřich
  1
  
• Sondheim, Stephen
  1
  
• Strauss, Johann
  1
  
• Strauss, Richard
  1
  
• Stravinsky, Igor
  1
  
• Sullivan, Arthur
  1
  

• Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich
  1
  
• Thomas, Ambroise
  1
  
• Tippett, Michael
  1
  

• Verdi, Giuseppe
  1
  

• Wagner, Richard
  1
  
• Weber, Carl Maria von
  1
  
• Weill, Kurt
  1
  

About the Author

Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at King’s College, Cambridge.
After further study as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, he has written several books including
Prima Donna, Romantic Affinities, Paris Babylon, The Visitors
and
Arthur Hugh Clough
.
In 1997, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
He is currently opera critic of the
Daily Telegraph
and a member of the editorial board of
Opera
magazine.
He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines, including
The Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Harpers & Queen, Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair
and the
New Yorker
.

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