A collection to mark the 400th anniversary of the presentation in Mantua of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (1607), considered as the first opera, sponsored by the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) and the Teatro Real (Madrid). Throughout the various chapters, the collection offers a complete history of the development of opera, from the very first occurrences to the latest contemporary creations. It comes complete with a study, synopsis and complete libretto (original and translation) for each opera, all of it presented in a carefully designed artistic and literary publication of the utmost quality, providing for a simple and enjoyable approach to the best lyrical performances.
Giuseppe VERDI, La Traviata (1853)
Georges BIZET, Carmen (1875)
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN, Fidelio (1814)
Giacomo PUCCINI, La Bohème (1896)
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY, Eugene Oneguin (1879)
Georg Friedrich HAENDEL, Rinaldo (1711)
Richard WAGNER, Tristan und Isolde (1865)
Charles GOUNOD, Faust (1859)
Christoph Willibald GLUCK, Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)
Gioacchino ROSSINI, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816)
Benjamin BRITTEN (†1976), Peter Grimes (1945)
Carl Maria von WEBER, Der Freischütz (1821)
Antonio VIVALDI, Tito Manlio (1720)
Richard STRAUSS (†1949), Salomé (1905)
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Die Zauberflöte (1791)
Modest MUSSORGSKY, Borís Godunov (1874)
Gaetano DONIZETTI, Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)
Leos JANÁCEK (†1928), Jenufa (1904)
Jules MASSENET, Werther (1892)
Vincenzo BELLINI, Norma (1831)
Antonin DVORÁK, Rusalka (1901)
Jean-Baptiste LULLY, Proserpine (1680)
Alban BERG (†1935), Wozzeck (1925)
Claude DEBUSSY, Pelléas et Mélisande (1902)
Claudio MONTEVERDI, L’Orfeo (1607)