Upton. The Standard Operas

Today's free book is The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. Upton. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books. You can get a free Kindle ebook from Amazon too!



Auber
Fra Diavolo
Masaniello
The Crown Diamonds

Balfe
The Bohemian Girl
The Rose of Castile

Beethoven
Fidelio

Bellini
Norma
La Sonnambula
I Puritani

Bizet
Carmen

Boieldieu
La Dame Blanche

Boito
Mephistopheles

Delibes
Lakme

Donizetti
The Daughter of the Regiment
La Favorita
Don Pasquale
Lucia Di Lammermoor
L'Elisir D'Amore
Lucrezia Borgia

Flotow
Martha
Stradella

Gluck
Orpheus

Goetz
The Taming of the Shrew

Goldmark
The Queen of Sheba
Merlin

Gounod
Faust
Romeo and Juliet
Mireille

Halevy
The Jewess

Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel

Leoncavallo
I Pagliacci

Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana

Meyerbeer
The Huguenots
The Star of the North
Robert the Devil
Dinorah
The Prophet
The African
Mozart

The Marriage of Figaro
Don Giovanni
The Magic Flute

Rossini
The Barber of Seville
Semiramide (Semiramis)
William Tell

Rubinstein
Nero

Thomas
Mignon

Verdi
Ernani
Rigoletto
La Traviata
Il Trovatore
The Masked Ball
Aida
Othello
Falstaff

Wagner
Rienzi
The Flying Dutchman
Tannhäuser
Lohengrin
Tristan Und Isolde
The Mastersingers
The Ring of the Nibelung
Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Siegfried
Die Götterdämmerung
Parsifal

Wallace
Maritana

Weber
Der Freischütz
Oberon
Euryanthe