In four acts by HERMANN GOETZ. Text done after Shakespeare's comedy by J. V. WIDMANN. This beautiful opera is the only one, which the gifted young composer left complete, for he di...
In a Prologue and three acts by AUGUST BUNGERT. Kirke, the first part of Bungert's Odyssey was given for the first time in Dresden January 29th 1898. It had the same immense succes...
In three acts by LOUIS SPOHR. Text by HENRY GEHE. Spohr wrote this opera by way of inauguration to his charge as master of the court-chapel at Cassel, and with it he added to the f...
DER WAFFENSCHMIED In three acts by ALBERT LORTZING. Text by himself. Though this opera does not equal in value Lortzing's "Czar and Zimmermann", it has nevertheless proved an admir...
In three Acts by J. MASSENET. Text from GOETHE by BLAU, MILLIET and HARTMANN. German Translation by MAX KALBECK. The subject of this opera is Goethe's famous novel of the same name...
CARLO BROSCHI In three acts by AUBER. Text by SCRIBE. This composition might rather be called a Vaudeville with musical accompaniment, than an opera. The music is not above mediocr...
In five acts by AUBER. Text by SCRIBE. This opera was first put on the stage in the Grand Opera-House at Paris in the year 1828, and achieved for its author universal celebrity; no...
In three acts by E. VON REZNICEK. Text after a free translation of MORETO'S comedy of the same name. Many are the authors, who have dramatized this old, but ever young and fresh co...
In three acts by REINHOLD BECKER. Text by FRANZ KOPPEL-ELLFELD. Becker, the well-known Dresden composer, has long won name and fame by his beautiful songs, which may be heard all o...
In four acts by EDMUND KRETSCHMER. This opera has not had the same success as "The Folkungs", which may be attributed in part to the subject, which is less attractive. Nevertheless...
In four acts by VERDI. Text by MERY and CAMILLA DU LOCLE. This opera is one of the first of Verdi's. It was half forgotten, when being suddenly recalled to the stage it met with co...
CCHAOTER Lyric Drama In five acts by VERDI. Text by F. M. PIAVE. Auber's success with the opera of the same name inspired Verdi to try his hand at it too. He ordered his friend Pia...
In three Acts. Music by MAX SCHILLINGS. Libretto by EMIL GERHAEUSER, founded on HEBBEL'S fragment "MOLOCH". The first representation of this opera took place on December 8th 1906 i...
In five acts by GIACOMO MEYERBEER. Text by SCRIBE. Though Meyerbeer never again attained the high standard of his Huguenots, the "Prophet" is not without both striking and powerful...
In two acts by GAETANO DONIZETTI. Text by ST. GEORGE and BAYARD. This opera is one of the few of Donizetti's numerous works, which still retain their attraction for the theatre-vis...
In one act by GEORGES BIZET. Text by LOUIS GALLET. German Translation by LUDWIG HARTMANN. Djamileh was composed before Carmen, and was given in Paris in 1872. But after the years o...
In two acts by CHARLES GOUNOD. Text by JULES BARBIER and MICHEL CARRE, with an intermezzo. This is a truly delightful musical composition and though unpretending and not on the lev...
In three acts by ETIENNE HENRY MEHUL. Text after ALEXANDER DUVAL. This opera, which has almost disappeared from the French stage, is still esteemed in Germany and always will be so...
In three acts by ANTON RUBINSTEIN Text after the Russian of ALFRED OFFERMANN. This opera of the great Russian musician has an entirely national character. The great features of Rub...
Third day of the Nibelungen Ring by WAGNER. This is the end of the great and beautiful tragedy and really it may be called both a sublime and grand conclusion, which unites once ag...
In four acts by GIUSEPPE VERDI. Text by SALVATORE COMMERANO. Though Verdi is far beneath his celebrated predecessors Rossini and Bellini, he is highly appreciated in his own countr...
In three acts by ALBAN FOERSTER. Text by HANS HEINRICH SCHEFSKY. With this opera its composer has made a lucky hit; it stands far higher than the "Maidens of Schilda", by dint of t...
"THE VOICE OF NATURE" by LORTZING. Text after a comedy by KOTZEBUE. The music of this opera is so fresh, so full of gaiety and of charming melodies, that it might be compared with...
In three acts by W. A. MOZART. Text by ABBATE GIANBATTISTA VARESCO. This opera, which Mozart composed in his twenty-fifth year for the Opera-seria in Munich, was represented in the...
In five acts by RICHARD WAGNER. In this first opera of Wagner's one hardly recognizes the great master of later times.--But though Wagner himself disowned this early child of his m...
In two acts by VINCENZO BELLINI. Text by FELICE ROMANI. This opera is decidedly of the best of Bellini's muse. Though it does not reach the standard of Norma, its songs are so rich...
In four acts by GLUCK. Text by GUILLARD. Gluck's Iphigenia stands highest among his dramatic compositions. It is eminently classic and so harmoniously finished, that Herder called...
In three acts by WEBER. English text by PLANCHE translated by TH. HELL. Oberon is Weber's last work. In the year 1824 he had the honor of being commissioned to compose this opera f...
In two acts by PETER CORNELIUS. It took a long time, before this charming little Opera took its place amongst so many fellow operas much less entitled to notice. The composer had d...
In three acts by VERDI. Text by PIAVE from VICTOR HUGO'S drama: "Le roi s'amuse". No opera has become popular in so short a time as Rigoletto in Italy. The music is very winning an...