Grand romantic Opera by C. M. VON WEBER. Text by HELMINA VON CHEZY. This opera has not had the success of Oberon or Freischuetz, a fact to be attributed to the weakness of its libr...
In two acts by BELLINI. Text by ROMANI. Few operas can boast of as good and effective a libretto as that, which Romani wrote for Bellini's Norma. He took his subject from a French...
In three acts by DONIZETTI. Text by FELICE ROMANI after Victor Hugo's drama. Donizetti's Lucrezia was one of the first tragic operas to command great success, notwithstanding its d...
In four acts by ALBERT LORTZING. Text after FOUQUE'S tale. With this opera Lortzing for the first time tried his genius in another field. Until then he had only composed comic oper...
In three acts by C. M. VON WEBER. Text by FRIEDRICH KIND. This charming opera done at Dresden 1820, is the most favored of Weber's compositions. It is truly German, being both fant...
(AUF HOHEN BEFEHL.) In three acts by CARL REINECKE. Text by the composer after RIEHL's novel: "Ovidius at Court." Reinecke of Leipzig is known both as excellent pianist and compose...
In three acts by LEO BLECH. Text by RICHARD BATKA. The young composer, who is already conductor of the orchestra of the German Opera in Prague made his debut last year in a small o...
In two acts by MOZART. Text by DA PONTE, newly arranged by L. SCHNEIDER and ED. DEVRIENT. This opera, though lovely in its way, has never had the success, which the preceding Figar...
In two acts by L. van BEETHOVEN. This opera, the only one by the greatest of German composers, is also one of the most exquisite we possess. The music is so grand and sublime, so p...
In three acts by LOUIS AIME MAILLART. LES DRAGONS DE VILLARS. Text after the French by G. ERNST. Maillart, who studied under Halevy in Paris and received the Roman prize (prix de R...
Second day of the Nibelungen Ring by WAGNER. In three acts. The first act represents a part of the forest, where Fafner guards the Rhinegold and where Sieglinda has found refuge. W...
(SICILIAN RUSTIC CHIVALRY). In one act by PIETRO MASCAGNI. Text after Verga's drama of the same name by TARGIONI-TOZZETTI and MENASCI. The composer of this very brief opera is a yo...
A lyric Comedy in three acts by PIETRO MASCAGNI Text after ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN'S novel of the same name. After the immense success of Cavalleria Rusticana, the first representation o...
In three acts by ROSSINI. This last opera of Rossini's is his most perfect work and it is deeply to be regretted that when it appeared, he left the dramatic world, to live in comfo...
In five acts by AMBROISE THOMAS. Text taken from SHAKESPEARE by MICHEL CARRE and JULES BARBIER. Hamlet was first reproduced in Paris in 1868, a year after the representation of Mig...
In three Acts by MEILHAC and HALEVY. Music by JOHANN STRAUSS. The Fledermaus is the famous Viennese Waltz King's best operetta. The charming music is so well known, that only the l...
In one act and Libretto by RICHARD STRAUSS founded on OSCAR WILDE'S drama. On December 9th, 1905, this opera was performed for the first time in Dresden. Its success was immense, a...
A Fairytale in three pictures by ADELHEID WETTE. Music by ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK. After a long period of "Sturm und Drang" we have an opera so fresh and simple, that any child will...
Second Part of the Tetralogy: The Odyssey. Musical Tragedy in three acts and a Prologue by AUGUST BUNGERT. The first representation of Nausikaa took place in Dresden on March 20th...
In one act by GEORG PITTRICH. Text by ARNO SPIESS. The first performance of this highly interesting little opera took place in Dresden in February 1894 and awakened the interest of...
Fourth Part of the Odyssey in three acts by AUGUST BUNGERT. This last part of the Tetralogy bears more decided indications of Wagner's influence than the others do; and though stri...
In four acts by MOZART. Text by LORENZO DA PONTE. This opera may be said to be the continuation of Rossini's "Barbiere di Seviglia". The text too is taken from Beaumarchais' Figaro...
In five acts by HALEVY. Text by EUGENE SCRIBE. This opera created a great sensation when it first appeared on the stage of the Grand Opera at Paris in the year 1835, and it has nev...
In three acts by ADRIEN BOIELDIEU. Text by St. JUST. After a lapse of many years this spirited little opera has again been put upon the stage and its success has shown, that true m...
In three acts by HECTOR BERLIOZ. Text by de WAILLY and BARRIER, translated into German by PETER CORNELIUS. This opera by the spirited French musician has had a singular fate. Compo...
In three acts by V. SARDOU, L. ILLICA and G. GIACOSA. Music by GIACOMO PUCCINI. The libretto of this opera is adapted from Sardou's tragedy of the same name; it possesses all the e...
VERSIEGELT In one act by RICHARD BATKA and PORDES-MILO, adapted from Rauppach's "Der versiegelte Buergermeister". Music by LEO BLECH. The popularity of this work, the composer's fi...
First day of the Nibelungen Ring by WAGNER. In the first scene we are introduced into the dwelling of a mighty warrior, Hunding, in whose house Siegmund, a son of Wotan and of a mo...
In four acts by WEBER. Text by ERNST PASQUE. This opera was left unfinished by Weber. It has however recently been completed, the text by Ernest Pasque, and the music by Ferdinand...
A German Legend in three parts by EUGEN LINDNER. After Fitger's poem by GUSTAV KASTROPP and the composer. The young composer has hitherto been little heard of by the public, though...