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A SECOND BOOK OF OPERAS
A SECOND BOOK OF OPERAS HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL CONTENTS AND INDEX
CHAPTER I
BIBLICAL OPERAS
England and the Lord Chamberlain's censorship
et Gounod's "Reine de Saba"
The transmigrations of "Un Ballo in Maschera"
How composers revamp their music
et seq--Handel and Keiser
Mozart and Bertati
Beethoven's readaptations of his own works
Rossini and his "Barber of Seville"
Verdi's "Nebuchadnezzar"
Rossini's "Moses"
"Samson et Dalila"
Goldmark's "Konigin von Saba"
The Biblical operas of Rubinstein
Mehul's "Joseph"
Mendelssohn's "Elijah" in dramatic form
Oratorios and Lenten operas in Italy
Carissimi and Peri
Scarlatti's oratorios
Scenery and costumes in oratorios
The passage of the Red Sea and "Dal tuo stellato"
Nerves wrecked by beautiful music
"Peter the Hermit" and refractory mimic troops
"Mi manca la voce" and operatic amenities
Operatic prayers and ballets
Goethe's criticism of Rossini's "Mose"
CHAPTER II
BIBLE STORIES IN OPERA AND ORATORIO
Dr. Chrysander's theory of the undramatic nature of the Hebrew his
literature and his life
Hebrew history and Greek mythology
Some parallels
Old Testament subjects: Adam and Eve
Cain and Abel
The "Kain" of Bulthanpt and d' Albert
"Tote Augen"
Noah and the Deluge
Abraham
The Exodus
Mehal's "Joseph"
Potiphar's wife and Richard Strauss
Raimondi's contrapuntal trilogy
Nebuchadnezzar
Judas Maccabseus
Jephtha and his Daughter
Judith
Esther
Athalia
CHAPTER III
RUBINSTEIN AND HIS "GEISTLICHE OPER"
Anton Rubinstein and his ideals
An ambition to emulate Wagner
The Tower of Babel"
The composer's theories and strivings
et seq.--Dean Stanley
"Die Makkabaer"
Sulamith"
Christus"
"Das verlorene Paradies"
"Moses"
Action and stage directions
New Testament stories in opera
The Prodigal Son
Legendary material and the story of the Nativity
Christ dramas
Hebbel and Wagner
Parsifal"
CHAPTER IV
"SAMSON ET DALILA"
The predecessors of M. Saint-Saens
Voltaire and Rameau
Duprez and Joachim Raff
History of Saint-Saens's opera
et seq.--Henri Regnault
First performances
As oratorio and opera in New York
An inquiry into the story of Samson
Samson and Herakles
The Hebrew hero in legend
A true type for tragedy
Mythological interpretations
Saint-Saens's opera described
et seq.--A choral prologue
Local color
The character of Dalila
et seq.--Milton on her wifehood and patriotism
"Printemps qui commence"
"Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix"
Oriental ballet music
The catastrophe
CHAPTER V
"DIE KONIGIN VON SABA"
Meritoriousness of the book of Goldmark's opera
Its slight connection with Biblical story
Contents of the drama
et seq.--Parallelism with Wagner's "Tannhauser"
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