Heylbut, Rose, 397n21
Heythekker, Jan, 97–98tab
Hippodrome (New York), 146
hochdramatischer (soprano voice demanded by heroic Wagner roles), 152
Hock, Wilhelm, 386
Hockney, David, 285–87, 290
Hoelterhoff, Manuela, 280, 419n12
Hoffman, William F., 312, 418n5
Hofmannstahl, Hugo von, 216
Homer, Louise, 10, 56, 59, 82, 84, 218
Hong, Hei-Khung, 303
Horne, Marilyn, 22, 255, 258, 261, 266, 274, 277, 284, 287, 292, 312, 346–47
Horner, Harry, 170, 173
Horner, James, 351
Horowitz, Joseph, 395n2, 398n7
Horowitz, Vladimir, 230, 350
Hörth, Franz, 97tab
Hotter, Hans, 162, 191
Houston Grand Opera, 349, 379
Howell, Rob, 375
Hoyt, Henry E., 30–31tab
Hudson, Richard, 319, 378
Hugo, John Adam, 106tab, 241tab
Huguenots, Les (Meyerbeer), 36, 39, 44; 1883–84, 9, 19, 52; 1884–85, 27; 1891–92, 38; 1893–94, 38; 1894–95, 43
Humperdinck, Engelbert, 56, 88, 81
Humphrey, Louise Ireland, 306–9
Hunter, Rita, 259
Hurok, Sol, 193, 208, 229, 350
Hutchison, Ernest, 129
Huxtable, Ada Louise, 233
Hvorostovsky, Dmitri, 332–33, 348
Hwang, David Henry, 313
Hytner, Nicholas, 376
Idomeneo (Mozart): 1982–83, 287, 317, 358; 1985–86, 295
Igesz, Bodo, 258
Ingpen, Joan, 284, 293, 295, 311
intendant (general manager of an opera company, a term in increasing usage), 67
In the Pasha’s Garden (Seymour): 1934–35, 130
Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck): 1916–17, 92; 2007–08, 369
Iris (Mascagni): 1906–07, 71–72
Irving, Henry, 6
Iselin, Adrian, 53
Island God, The (Menotti): 1941–42, 167, 217
Israel, Robert, 313–14, 331
Italiana in Algeri, L’ (Rossini): 1973–74, 22, 261, 347
Italian Opera House (New York), 11–12
Ives, Charles, 259
Jackson, Joe, 351
Jackson, Paul, xv, 153, 403n6
Jagel, Frederick, 130
James, Henry, 13
Janáček, Leoš, 108, 263, 327, 329, 331, 341, 378
Janowitz, Gundula, 248
Janowski, Marek, 300
Järvefelt, Göran, 304tab
Javitz, Jacob (senator), 230
Jenufa (Janáček), 147, 331; 1924–25, 108, 327, 328; 1974–75, 263–64; 1985–86, 295; 1992–93, 331; 2002–03, 329, 337, 390
Jepson, Helen, 134
Jeritza, Maria, 66, 99, 104, 108, 111, 119, 120, 151, 193, 266, 365
Johansen, Henry, 162
Johnson, Edward, 52, 120, 122–23, 126, 129, 133–35, 141–43, 146–47, 149, 155, 156, 161–62, 163–66, 172, 175, 177, 179–82, 184–85, 185fig, 192, 197, 201–2, 207, 210, 215, 224, 239–40, 246, 336, 352, 356
Johnson, Lyndon B. (president), 230
Johnson, Philip, 233
John the Baptist, play (Sudermann), 61, 149
Jonas, Sir Peter, 349
Jones, Gwyneth, 259, 348
Jones, Robert Edmond, 191, 197
Jones, Robert, 385tab
Jongleur de Notre Dame, Le (Massenet), 134, 310
Jonny spielt auf (Krenek): 1928–29, 108, 205
Jorgulesco, Jonel, 170
jugendlich dramatischer (soprano voice demanded by lyric-dramatic Wagner roles), 151
Juive, La (Halévy), 51, 166; 1884–85, 27; 1920–21, 103; 2003–04, 343, 390
Julien (Charpentier): 1913–14, 99
Jung, Doris, 261
Juntwait, Margaret, 355
Jurinac, Sena, 218
Jurowski, Vladimir, 337
Kabaivanska, Raina, 259
Kagen, Sergius, 240
Kahn, Mrs. Otto, 183
Kahn, Otto, 63, 65–66, 76, 78–79, 80–81, 85, 88, 92, 104, 113–16, 118, 120, 125–26, 131, 134, 137, 140, 143, 146, 198, 205, 227, 239, 296, 379
Kaiser, Michael, 349
Kalman, Chester, 218
Kanin, Garson, 191
Kappel, Gertrude, 152
Karajan, Herbert von, 188, 248–49, 251, 253, 258, 300, 350, 386
Kát’a Kabanová (Janáček): 2004–05, 329, 331
Katerina Ismailova. See Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Kaufmann, Jonas, 365, 383, 388
Kautsky & Rottonara Brothers, 74tab, 95tab
Kautsky, Hans, 96–97tab, 107tab, 109tab
Kautsky, Johann, 30–31tab
Kavaler, Lucy, 395n10
Kaye, Danny, 192
Kaye, Michael, 424n28
Keaton, Buster, 192
Keenlyside, Simon, 375
Kellow, Brian, 389
Kempe, Rudolf, 216
Kennedy, John F. (president), 203–4, 243
Kennedy, Joseph P., 228–29
Kennedy, Robert F. (senator), 230
Kentridge, William, 341
Khovanschchina (Mussorgsky): 1949–50, 168; 1985–86, 295–96; 1998–99, 329, 335
Kiepura, Jan, 160
Kiesler, Frederick J., 132tab
King, James, 225
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 209
King’s Henchman, The (Taylor): 1926–27, 120, 239
Kipnis, Alexander, 160, 175–77, 224
Kirov Opera (St. Petersburg), 321, 325, 327, 332–35
Kirsten, Dorothy, 215, 217, 224, 290
Kleiber, Carlos, 299–301, 305
Kleiber, Erich, 187–88
Klose, Margarete, 160
Kobler, John, 80
Koegel, John, 395n2
Koenig, Lesley, 349
Kogan, Leonid, 328
Kolodin, Irving, xv, 180–81, 199, 215, 223, 274, 402n24, 406n9
Komische Oper (Berlin), 243
Konchalovsky, Andrei, 336
Konetzni, Anny, 131
Königin von Saba, Die (Goldmark): 1885–86, 28
Königskinder (Humperdinck): 1910–11, 88, 91, 366
Korngold, Eric, 107tab
Kozlov, Leonid, 329
Kozlov, Valentina, 329
Kozma, Tibor, 187, 199
Krainik, Ardis, 293
Kraus, Alfredo, 225, 290, 303
Krawitz, Herman, 253, 256, 310
Krehan-Crayon, M., 170
Krehbiel, Henry, xv, 9, 16, 20, 36–37, 42, 47, 62, 71–72, 75, 77, 83, 90, 93, 240, 394n13, 396n16, 398n6
Krenek, Ernst, 81
Kringelborn, Solveig, 333
Krips, Josef, 188, 251
Kubelik, Rafael, 254–56, 258–59, 260–63, 270, 311
Kubiak, Teresa, 264
Kullman, Charles, 176, 177
Kurosawa, Akira, 221
Lacombe, Judge, 58
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich), 331, 371; 1994–95, 329, 331–32
LaFarge, Christopher, 240
LaGuardia, Fiorello (mayor), 148, 161, 227
Lakmé (Delibes), 39, 52, 122, 149; 1891–92, 40
Lalo, Édouard, 107tab
Lamos, Mark, 314
Lamponi, Attilio, 160
Langenfass, Rolf, 302
Langtree, Lily, 6
Laparra, Raoul, 109tab
Lasky, Jesse, 100
Lassalle, Jean, 39, 42
Last Savage, The (Menotti): 1963–64, 215, 217
Lattuada, Felice, 120
Lawrence, Marjorie, 153, 176, 366
Lawrence, Robert, 198
Leach, Richard, 303
Lear, Evelyn, 290
Leavitt, Max, 194
Lebrecht, Norman, 351
Lee, Ming Cho, 259, 296
Legend, The (Breil): 1918–19, 135
Lehár, Franz, 319
Lehman, Gary, 388
Lehmann, Lilli, 28, 34–35, 38, 47, 151
; Lehmann, Lotte, 131, 152–53, 160, 224
Lehmann, Peter, 244
Lehmbruck, Wilhelm, 234
Leider, Frida, 117, 131, 152, 160
Leinsdorf, Erich, 153–55, 162, 173, 212, 249, 258, 261, 303
Leiser, Clara, 397n21, 398n7
Lemnitz, Tiana, 160
Leoncavallo, Ruggero, 44
Leoni, Franco, 91
Lepage, Robert, 369, 384, 386–90
Le Roux, Xavier, 106tab
Lert, Ernst, 130
Leve, Samuel, 169tab
Levine, James, 256, 259–60, 263, 266, 268, 269–72, 270fig, 274–76, 280–81, 283–84, 287, 288, 290, 291–95, 299, 300–305, 306–12, 314, 317, 320–23, 325–26, 334–35, 341–42, 346–47, 348, 351, 353, 361–62, 380–81, 388
Levine, Michael, 333
Levy, Martin David, 239, 240
Lewin, Walter, 269
Lewis, Earle, 206
Lewisohn Stadium (New York), 146
Lexington Theatre (New York), 86
Lhévinne, Rosina, 269
Libuše (Smetana), 331
Liceo (Barcelona). See Gran Teatre de Liceu
Liebermann, Rolf, 253
Lieberson, Lorraine Hunt, 314, 348, 364
Liebesverbot, Das (Wagner), 32
Liebl, Karl, 262
Ligendza, Catarina, 261
Lincoln, Abraham (president), 14
Lind, Jenny, 14, 100
Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti): 1933–34, 130
Lindsay, John (mayor), 230, 265
Lion King, The: musical (John et al.), 346
Lipton, Martha, 192
Lisitsian, Pavel, 328
Liszt, Franz, 98tab
Lithuanian National Opera, 362
Ljungberg, Göta, 67
Lobel, Adrianne, 314, 379
Lobetanz (Thuille), 96tab
Locke, Charles Edward (Rev. Dr.), 63
Lodoletta (Mascagni): 1917–18, 94
Lohengrin (Wagner), 51, 94, 143–44, 168, 205; 1883–84, 7, 9, 16, 19; 1884–85, 27, 33; 1891–92, 38; 1894–95, 45; 1900–01, 47; 1933–34, 152; 1966–67, 243–44, 342; 1976–77, 281; 1984–85, 318; 1997–98, 343
Lombardi, I (Verdi): 1993–94, 318
London, George, 216–17, 227, 253, 298, 357
Loquasto, Santo, 315
Lorange, Nicole, 299
Loreley (Catalani), 107tab
Lorengar, Pilar, 225
Lorenz, Max, 160
Louise (Charpentier), 52, 69, 82, 251
Lubin, Germaine, 145, 175–76
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), 20–21, 52, 122, 143, 149, 168; 1883–84, 7–8, 124; 1893–94, 20; 1934–35, 134; 1942–43, 170; 1961–62, 21; 1964–65, 22, 222, 245, 347; 1982–83, 22; 1992–93, 343, 344fig, 374; 2007–08, 365, 367
Lucky Strike, 133
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), 14; 1904–05, 20, 70, 73
Ludwig, Christa, 244, 261
Ludwig, Leopold, 251
Luisa Miller (Verdi): 1929–30, 120, 135; 1967–68, 245, 247
Luisi, Fabio, 278, 380, 388
Lulu (Berg): 1976–77, 278; 1980–81, 358; 1984–85, 295 2009–10, 278
Lunt, Alfred, 221, 244
Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die (Cornelius), 49tab
Luten, C. J., 403n8
Lynch, Thomas, 345, 369
Lyric Opera of Chicago, 198, 281, 293, 314, 349, 394n19
Ma, Yo-Yo, 351
Maag, Peter, 259
Maazel, Lorin, 306
Macbeth (Verdi): 1958–59, 212, 222; 1982–83, 287–88, 342; 2007–08, 368
Macfarlane, John, 385tab
Mackerras, Charles, 259, 331
MacNeil, Cornell, 213, 290, 296
Macready, Charles, 12
Madama Butterfly (Puccini), 86, 111, 143, 166, 303; 1906–07, 57, 71, 79, 86; 1934–35, 131; 1957–58, 221, 298; 1961–62, 328; 1974–75, 268; 1994–95, 362; 2006–07, 354, 359fig, 362, 363fig, 373; recording, 192, 217
Madame Sans-Gêne (Giordano), 97tab
Maddalena, James, 379
Madeira, Jean, 227
Madeleine (Herbert), 97tab
Madonna Imperia (Alfano), 110tab
Maeder, Gaspar, 17tab, 18tab, 29tab
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 177
Magic Flute, The. See Zauberflöte, Die
Mahler, Gustav, 57, 76–77, 83, 187, 284
Maillol, Aristide, 234
Maison, René, 134, 175
Makropoulos Case, The (Janáček), 251; 1995–96, 332–33; 2000–01, 329
Malfitano, Catherine, 290
Malibran, Maria, 396n14
Mallach, Alan, 399n21
Mamelles de Tirésias, Les (Poulenc), 290; 1980–81, 285
Mancinelli, Luigi, 49tab
Manhattan Opera House (New York), 56, 66–70, 77, 85–86, 130, 368
Mankiewicz, Joseph, 220
Manon (Massenet), 84, 143; 1931–32, 117; 1963–64, 222; 1986–87, 302; 2011–12, 367, 381–82, 390
Manon Lescaut (Puccini): 1906–07, 57, 71; 1909–10, 84, 87; 1929–30, 112; 1949–50, 170; 1979–80, 281; 1984–85, 295
Manru (Paderewski): 1901–02, 51
Mansouri, Lofti, 282tab
Manuel, Michael, 223
Man without a Country, The (Damrosch): 1936–37, 146, 149
Mapleson, James H. (“Colonel”), 3–4, 6, 8, 15–16, 24, 37, 56, 68, 86, 197
Mapleson, Lionel, 9, 10fig, 356
Marek, George, 198
Maria Stuarda (Donizetti), 251; 2012–13, 23, 347, 381
Mariinsky Theater. See Kirov Opera
Mario, Giovanni, 13–14
Marlowe, Julia, 61
Mârouf (Rabaud), 20, 94; 1936–37, 146–47
Marsh, Robert C., 416n1
Martha (Flotow): 1883–84, 9, 297; 1917–18, 94; 1960–61, 222
Martin, George, 395n1
Martin, Ruth and Thomas, 178, 192, 193
Martinelli, Giovanni, 100, 104, 119, 130, 134, 149, 151, 173, 179, 188, 224
Marton, Eva, 290, 301–2
Masaniello (Auber): 1884–85, 27
Mascagni, Pietro, 40, 72
Mason, William, 349
Massenet, Jules, 28, 39, 43–44, 84
Materna, Amalie, 27
Matrimonio segreto, Il (Cimarosa): 1936–37, 146–47
Mattei, Peter, 364, 383
Mattila, Karita, 301, 332–33, 337, 342–43, 348, 365
Matz, Mary Jane, 400n10
Matzenauer, Margarete, 277
Maurel, Victor, 43–44, 106tab
Mauro, Ermanno, 292, 295
Mayer, Martin, xiii, 180–81, 196, 274, 394n18, 397n21, 400n3, 403n4, 406nn8,9, 413nn2,12, 416n5
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