MUSY 255: Music of the Romantic Era (Spring 2025)

German Miscellaneous Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Marcie Stapp; Otto Nicolai; Engelbert Humperdinck Includes word-by-word translations, IPA, an IPA Guide, and illustrations. Operas include: Der Fliegende Hollander, Lohengrin, Tannhauser (Wagner), Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai), Fidelio (Beethoven), Der Freischutz (von Weber), and Hansel und Gretel (Humperdinck). Rheingold.

French Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Eugene Green (Illustrator) Word-by-word translations plus IPA; Hardbound. Operas include: Werther; Carmen; Samson et Dalila; Lakme; Pelleas et Melisande; Cherubin; Don Carlos; Les Contes d'Hoffmann; Faust; Roméo et Juliette; La juive; Mignon; Hamlet; Thaïs; Les pêcheurs de perles; Manon; Le Prophète; Cendrillon; Louise; Don Quichotte; Les Huguenots; Les Troyens

Libretti of Russian Operas by Anton Belov; Ann Brash; Valeria Konstantinovskaya; Nico Castel Word-by-word translations and IPA of six Russian Operas based on the poetry and prose of Alexander Pushkin. Includes: Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila; Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Rachmaninoff: Aleko; Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel; Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades.

Italian Belcanto Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Scott Jackson Wiley; Marcie Stapp Word-for-Word Translations with IPA; Hardbound. Operas include: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Il Turco in Italia; Lucia di Lammermoor; L'Elisir d'Amore; Lucrezia Borgia; Norma; I Capuleti e i Montecchi; La cenerentola; L'italiana in Algeri; La sonnambula; Anna Bolena; Maria Stuarda; Roberto Devereux; Don Pasquale; I puritani; Guillaume Tell; Le comte Ory; Otello; Semiramide; La fille du régiment; La favorite; Beatrice di Tenda

Italian Verismo Opera Libretti by Nico Castel; Scott Jackson Wiley Word-by-word translations and IPA; Hardbound. Operas include: Andrea Chenier; Fedora; Adriana Lecouvreur; La Boheme (Leoncavallo--not Puccini); Mefistofele (Boito); Cavelleria Rusticana; Pagliacci; La Gioconda; L'Amico Fritz.

Who Married Figaro? by Joyce Bourne A unique and authoritative A-Z reference work that will answer all your questions on who's who in opera. Contains over 2,500 lively entries on operatic characters, with information on the creator of the role and notable performances. The appendix of contemporary opera of the last ten years provides detailed synopses followed by the cast list of people who sang at the world premiere.

The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas by John W. Freeman; Peter Allen; James Levine Here at last is the definitive opera story collection, the only one now authorized by the Metropolitan Opera. Written by the associate editor of Opera News magazine, the volume includes the complete plots of 150 different operas, biographical information on all of the 72 composers represented, easy access to the stories through both a table of contents and an index, and a foreword by Peter Allen.