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The Complete Opera Book

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Mary Garden as SaphoFrontispiece

Louise Homer as Orpheus in "Orpheus and Eurydice"10

Hempel (Susanna), Matzenauer (The Countess), and Farrar (Cherubino) in "Le Nozze di Figaro"26

Scotti as Don Giovanni34

Sembrich as Zerlina in "Don Giovanni"35

Scotti as Don Giovanni42

Alten and Goritz as Papagena and Papageno in "The Magic Flute"43

Matzenauer as Fidelio56

Farrar as Elizabeth in "Tannhäuser"108

"Tannhäuser," Finale, Act II. Tannhäuser (Maclennan), Elizabeth (Fornia), Wolfram (Dean), The Landgrave (Cranston)109

Sembach as Lohengrin122

Schumann-Heink as Ortrud in "Lohengrin"123

Emma Eames as Elsa in "Lohengrin"128

Louise Homer as Fricka in "The Ring of the Nibelung"129

Lilli Lehmann as Brünnhilde in "Die Walküre"166

"The Valkyr" Act I. Hunding (Parker), Sieglinde (Rennyson), and Siegmund (Maclennan)167

Fremstad as Brünnhilde in "Die Walküre"172

Fremstad as Sieglinde in "Die Walküre"173

Weil as Wotan in "Die Walküre"178

"Die Walküre" Act III. Brünnhilde (Margaret Crawford)179

Édouard de Reszke as Hagen in "Götterdämmerung"210

Jean de Reszke as Siegfried in "Götterdämmerung"211

Nordica as Isolde228

Lilli Lehmann as Isolde236

Jean de Reszke as Tristan237

Gadski as Isolde242

Ternina as Isolde243

Emil Fischer as Hans Sachs in "Die Meistersinger"248

Weil and Goritz as Hans Sachs and Beckmesser in "Die Meistersinger"249

The Grail-Bearer272

Winckelmann and Materna as Parsifal and Kundry273

Scaria as Gurnemanz273

Sammarco as Figaro in "The Barber of Seville"298

Galli-Curci as Rosina in "The Barber of Seville"302

Sembrich as Rosina in "The Barber of Seville"303

Hempel (Adina) and Caruso (Nemorino) in "L'Elisir d'Amore"336

Caruso as Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor"348

Galli-Curci as Lucia in "Lucia di Lammermoor"349

Galli-Curci as Gilda in "Rigoletto"392

Caruso as the Duke in "Rigoletto"393

The Quartet in "Rigoletto." The Duke (Sheehan), Maddalena (Albright), Gilda (Easton), Rigoletto (Goff)400

Riccardo Martin as Manrico in "Il Trovatore"401

Schumann-Heink as Azucena in "Il Trovatore"410

Galli-Curci as Violetta in "La Traviata"411

Farrar as Violetta in "La Traviata"420

Scotti as Germont in "La Traviata"421

Emma Eames as Aïda442

Saléza as Rhadames in "Aïda"443

Louise Homer as Amneris in "Aïda"448

Rosina Galli in the Ballet of "Aïda"449

Alda as Desdemona in "Otello"460

Amato as Barnaba in "La Gioconda"461

Caruso as Enzo in "La Gioconda"488

Louise Homer as Laura in "La Gioconda"489

Plançon as Saint Bris in "The Huguenots"508

Jean de Reszke as Raoul in "The Huguenots"509

Ober and De Luca; Caruso and Hempel in "Martha"548

Plançon as Méphistophélès in "Faust"549

Galli-Curci as Juliette in "Roméo et Juliette"578

Calvé as Carmen with Sparkes as Frasquita, and Braslau as Mercedes579

Caruso as Don José in "Carmen"590

Caruso as Don José in "Carmen"591

Calvé as Carmen594

Amato as Escamillo in "Carmen"595

Gadski as Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana"614

Bori as Iris615

Caruso as Canio in "I Pagliacci"630

Farrar as Nedda in "I Pagliacci"631

Farrar as Mimi in "La Bohème"644

Café Momus Scene, "La Bohème." Act II. Mimi (Rennyson), Musette (Joel), Rudolph (Sheehan)645

Cavalieri as Tosca656

Scotti as Scarpia657

Emma Eames as Tosca660

Caruso as Mario in "Tosca"661

Farrar as Tosca664

"Madama Butterfly." Act I. (Francis Maclennan, Renée Vivienne, and Thomas Richards)665

Farrar as Cio-Cio-San in "Madama Butterfly"668

Destinn as Minnie, Caruso as Johnson, and Amato as Jack Rance in "The Girl of the Golden West"669

Alda as Francesca, and Martinelli as Paolo in "Francesca da Rimini"682

Bori and Ferrari-Fontana in "The Love of Three Kings"683

Farrar as Catherine in "Mme. Sans-Gêne"710

Galli-Curci as Lakmé711

Caruso as Samson in "Samson and Dalila"726

Mary Garden as Grisélidis727

Mary Garden as Thaïs730

Farrar and Amato as Thaïs and Athanaël731

Farrar as Thaïs734

Farrar and Amato as Thaïs and Athanaël735

Caruso as Des Grieux in "Manon"738

Mary Garden in "Le Jongleur de Nôtre Dame"739

Mary Garden as Louise750

Lucienne Bréval as Salammbô751

Mary Garden as Mélisande in "Pelléas and Mélisande"754

Farrar as the Goose Girl in "Königskinder"776

Van Dyck and Mattfeld as Hänsel and Gretel777

Mary Garden as Salome802

Hempel as the Princess and Ober as Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier"803

Scene from the Ballet in "Prince Igor" (with Rosina Galli)820

Anna Case as Feodor, Didur as Boris, and Sparkes as Xenia in "Boris Godounoff"821

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