Operas

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Operas Every Child Should Know

Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert, also an audiobook

The Complete Opera Book

Gustav Kobbé

Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts

Engelbert Humperdinck and Adelheid Wette, also an audiobook

Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods

Richard Wagner

Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts

Charles Gounod and others

The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

Richard Wagner

Stories from Wagner

J. Walker McSpadden and Richard Wagner, also an audiobook

The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Hollaender): Romantic Opera in Three Acts

Richard Wagner, also an audiobook

German

The Standard Operaglass

Charles Annesley

Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts

Richard Wagner

La Tétralogie de l'Anneau du Nibelung

Richard Wagner

French

Libretto: La Bohème

Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, also an audiobook

Original Plays, Second Series

W. S. Gilbert

Rustic Chivalry (Cavalleria Rusticana): Melodrama in One Act

Pietro Mascagni

Stories of the Wagner Opera

H. A. Guerber

Stories from the operas

Gladys Davidson, also an audiobook

The Valkyries

E. F. Benson and Richard Wagner

The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers

George P. Upton

The Standard Light Operas, Their Plots and Their Music

George P. Upton

The Castle of Andalusia: A Comic Opera, in Three Acts

John O'Keeffe

Stars of the Opera

Mabel Wagnalls

New version of Les contes d'Hoffmann (The tales of Hoffman)

Jacques Offenbach

French

Zanetto; and Cavalleria Rusticana

Pietro Mascagni

Italian

Amadis of Gaul, an opera

Nicola Francesco Haym

Italian

The Wagnerian Romances

Gertrude Hall Brownell

La Esmeralda

Victor Hugo

French

Der Fliegende Hollaender

Richard Wagner

German

Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera

H. R. Haweis

A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

Henry Edward Krehbiel

Opera Stories from Wagner

Florence Akin

Parsifal

Oliver Huckel and Richard Wagner

The Pinafore Picture Book: the Story of H.M.S. Pinafore

W. S. Gilbert, also an audiobook

Great opera stories

Millicent Schwab Bender

Fontainbleau; a comic opera. In three acts

John O'Keeffe

Original Plays [First Series]

W. S. Gilbert

A Second Book of Operas

Henry Edward Krehbiel

Le Vaisseau fantôme (Der Fliegende Holländer)

Richard Wagner

French

Martha; or, The Fair at Richmond

Friedrich von Flotow

The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas

William Henry Frost

Il sogno di Scipione

Pietro Metastasio

Italian

Theophano: Oper in drei Aufzügen

Paul Graener and Otto Anthes

German

The story of the Rhinegold (Der Ring des Nibelungen) told for young people

Anna Alice Chapin

A Traviata: Operetta buffa em 1 acto em verso

Nicolau T. Leroy

Portuguese

The Duenna: A Comic Opera

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cock): An Opera in Three Acts

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

French

L'Endimione

Pietro Metastasio

Italian

La Muette de Portici: Opéra en cinq actes

D. F. E. Auber

French