Chapters of Opera

Chapters of Opera

Henry Edward Krehbiel, american music critic and musicologist (1854-1923)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- MOTTO

-04- PREFACE

-05- AUTHOR'S NOTE TO THIRD EDITION

-06- INTRODUCTION OF OPERA IN NEW YORK

-07- EARLY THEATERS, MANAGERS, AND SINGERS

-08- THE FIRST ITALIAN COMPANY

-09- HOUSES BUILT FOR OPERA

-10- MARETZEK, HIS RIVALS AND SINGERS

-11- THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC

-12- MAPLESON AND OTHER IMPRESARIOS

-13- THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE

-14- FIRST SEASON AT THE METROPOLITAN

-15- OPERATIC REVOLUTIONS

-16- GERMAN OPERA AT THE METROPOLITAN

-17- END OF ITALIAN OPERA AT THE ACADEMY

-18- WAGNER HOLDS THE METROPOLITAN

-19- WAGNERIAN HIGH TIDE

-20- END OF THE GERMAN PERIOD

-21- ITALIAN OPERA AGAIN AT THE METROPOLITAN

-22- THE ADVENT OF MELBA AND CALVÉ

-23- UPRISING IN FAVOR OF GERMAN OPERA

-24- BEGINNING OF THE GRAU PERIOD

-25- NEW SINGERS AND OPERAS

-26- HEINRICH CONRIED AND PARSIFAL

-27- END OF CONRIED'S ADMINISTRATION

-28- HAMMERSTEIN AND HIS OPERA HOUSE

-29- A BRILLIANT SEASON AT THE MANHATTAN