Opera Themes and Plots

by Rudolph Fellner

A comprehensive guide to opera for both beginners and connoisseurs.

This book is a comprehensive guide to operas. Whether you are a novice or an experienced musician, Fellner’s book serves as an indispensable resource. Basic musical and dramatic materials accompany vocal scores of operas from the repertoire of great opera houses. With rich summaries, Fellner gives readers a rich overview of the world of Opera.

Aïda / Verdi --
Un Ballo in Maschera (A masked ball) / Verdi --
Il Barbiere di Saviglia (The Barber of Seville) / Rossini --
La Bohème / Puccini --
Boris Godunoff / Mussorgsky --
Carmen / Bizet --
Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) / Mascagni --
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann / Offenbach --
Don Giovanni / Mozart --
Faust / Gounod --
Lohengrin / Wagner --
Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti --
Madama Butterfly / Puccini --
Manon / Massenet --
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) / Wagner --
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) / Mozart --
Otello / Verdi --
Pagliacci / Leoncavallo --
Rigoletto / Verdi --
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold); Die Walküre (The Valkyrie); Siegfried; Die Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) / Wagner --
Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer) / Strauss --
Salome / Strauss --
Tannhäuser / Wagner --
Tosca / Puccini --
La Traviata / Verdi --
Tristan und Isolde / Wagner --
Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) / Verdi --
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) / Mozart

Genres: Music

368 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 1971

Reviews

[Sara]

Can't rate this one yet, want to keep it on file so I won't forget where I found this. Read only the section on The Ring Cycle by Wagner. Very well done and informative.