Les contes d’Hoffmann (1881), 482
Bedřich Smetana (1824–84)
The Bartered Bride (1866), 61
Johann Strauss (1825–99)
Die Fledermaus (1874), 182
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–86)
La Gioconda (1876), 209
Alexander Borodin (1834–87)
Prince Igor (1890), 389
Modest Moussorgsky (1835–81)
Boris Godounoff (1874), 75
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Samson et Dalila (1877), 459
Léo Delibes (1836–91)
Lakmé (1883), 242
Georges Bizet (1838–75)
Carmen (1875), 85
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840–93)
Eugen Onegin (1879), 149
Arrigo Boito (1842–1918)
Mefistofele (1868), 325
Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
Manon (1884), 283
Thaïs (1894), 497
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff (1844–1908)
Le coq d’or (1909), 105
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921)
Hänsel und Gretel (1893), 220
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858–1919)
Pagliacci (1892), 362
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
Manon Lescaut (1893), 290
La Bohème (1896), 68
Tosca (1900), 503
Madama Butterfly (1904), 270
La fanciulla del West (1910), 215
Gianni Schicchi (1918), 206
Suor Angelica (1918), 477
Il tabarro (1918), 480
Turandot (1926), 534
Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956)
Louise (1900), 252
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), 371
Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945)
Cavalleria rusticana (1890), 91
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Salome (1905), 453
Elektra (1909), 138
Der Rosenkavalier (1911), 447
Ariadne auf Naxos (1912), 51
Arabella (1933), 47
Capriccio (1942), 83
Umberto Giordano (1867–1948)
Andrea Chénier (1896). 41
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
L’Heure espagnole (1911), 224
ítalo Montemezzi (1875–1952)
L’Amore dei tre re (1913), 37
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948)
Il segreto di Susanna (1909), 464
Igor Stravinsky (1882-)
The Rake’s Progress (1951), 399
Alban Berg (1885–1935)
Wozzeck (1925), 544
Sergei Prokofieff (1891–1953)
The Love for Three Oranges (1921), 257
Virgil Thomson (1896-)
Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), 197
George Gershwin (1898–1937)
Porgy and Bess (1935), 384
Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911-)
The Medium (1946), 321
The Telephone (1947), 495
The Consul (1950), 100
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), 35
Benjamin Britten (1913-)
Peter Grimes (1945), 377
HENRY W. SIMON (1901–70) was an author, editor, educator, and music critic and served as chairman of the Music Critics Circle of New York. His other books include the Pocket Treasury of Great Operas and The Victor Book of the Opera (revised edition).
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