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The Mikado is the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and arguably the most popular opera ever written. This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto, in English only.
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Giuseppe Verdi was always fascinated by the plays of Shakespeare and wrote three operas based on them. This version of the libretto is in the original Italian with an English translation.
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Libretto to Richard Strauss's 'Salome', based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play of the same name. It is in one act only, and this libretto in German and English includes a synopsis and brief history.
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'Yeomen of the Guard’ is a more ‘serious’ Gilbert and Sullivan opera and this perhaps accounts for it’s original lukewarm reception.This is the Chappell/IMP Edition of the Libretto containing all the dialogue.
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Wagner's sense of what he wanted to do with the Ring drama changed by the time he returned to Siegfried. This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto in the original German with an English translation by Stewart Robb.
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'Das Rheingold' is the first part of Wagner's 'Ring Cycle', and sets up the world in which the Ring is forged and begins to gain its evil power over people.
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Falstaff, a lyric comedy in three acts, is based on Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives Of Windsor' and passages from 'Henry IV'. Includes a synopsis of the plot and a historical note on the opera and composer.
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Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' has long been acknowledged as the beginning of musical modernism. It is said that the entire opera is an attempt to resolve the tension set established in the first eight bars.
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This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto in the original Italian with an English translation by William Weaver.
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'Cavalleria rusticana' (Rustic Chivalry) is one of the primary examples of Italian realism. It was both the best and worst thing that happened to Mascagni, for its success - never to be repeated - weighed upon the composer all his life.
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