Belohlávek, Jirí, 330tab
Beňačková, Gabriela, 329, 331, 420n22
Bennett, James Gordon, 39
Bennett, John, 201
Bennett, Max, 201
Benois, Alexander, 97tab
Benois, Nicola, 267tab
Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz), 371; 2003–04, 345
Berg, Alban, 215
Berger, Erna, 162, 290
Berghart & Co., 74tab, 95–97tab
Berglund, Joel, 145
Bergman, Gustav, 159
Bergman, Ingmar, 254–55
Bergonzi, Carlo, 210, 212–13, 298, 303
Berkowitz, Phoebe, 284
Berlioz, Hector, 345
Berman, Eugene, 211, 213
Bernardi, Mario, 292
Bernhardt, Sarah, 6, 14, 47, 72
Bernheimer, Martin, 251, 302
Bernstein, Leonard, 188, 214, 229–30, 251, 253, 256, 258, 275, 305, 363
Berry, Walter, 244
Betrothal in a Monastery (Prokofiev), 335
Bianco, Pieretto, 98tab, 106tab
Billinghurst, Sarah, 311, 335
Billy Budd (Britten): 1978–79, 279
Bing, Rudolf, 73, 168, 182–210, 185fig, 208fig, 210, 212, 214–18, 220–27, 229–31, 234, 236–38, 240–41, 243, 245–51, 253–56, 259, 266, 271, 274, 298, 308, 310–11, 317, 320, 328, 341–42, 348, 352, 356–57, 362, 374, 389
Bizet, Georges, 19
Björling, Jussi, 149, 157, 190, 356
Blech, Leo, 96tab
Bledsoe, Jules, 205–6
Blegen, Judith, 284
Bliss, Anthony, 204, 229, 243, 253, 259, 264–66, 270–74, 276, 283–84, 288–89, 292, 294, 297, 306, 307, 311, 352, 354, 371
Bliss, Cornelius N., 124, 129, 147–48, 264
Blitzstein, Mark, 194, 240
Bloch, Max, 92
Blomdahl, Karl-Birger, 254
Bloomberg, 422n10
Bluebeard’s Castle (Bartók): 1973–74, 260, 263; 1988–89, 299, 302
Blue Bird, The [L’Oiseau Bleu] (Wolff), 106tab
Blythe, Stephanie, 302, 345, 348, 388
Boccaccio (von Suppé): 1930–31, 120
Bodanya, Natalie, 146
Bodanzky, Artur, 67, 118–19, 131, 133, 137, 151, 153–54, 173, 187
Bogianckino, Massimo, 253, 268
Bohème, La (Puccini), 69, 82, 87, 111, 143, 168; 1900–01, 47, 71, 297; 1909–10, 68, 84; 1936–37, 151; 1952–53, 220, 285; 1965–66, 223; 1968–69, 315; 1976–77, 273, 281, 358; 1980–81, 285–86, 286fig, 295, 300–301; recording) 165
Böhm, Karl, 183, 215–16, 244
Bohnen, Michael, 205
Boieldieu, François-Adrien, 29tab, 395n4
Boito, Arrigo, 16
Bolcom, Michael, 314–15
Bolivar (Milhaud), 166
Bolm, Adolph, 98tab
Bolshoi Opera (Moscow), 328–29, 332, 336
Bolton, Michael, 351
Bonaparte, Joseph, 11
Bonci, Alessandro, 68, 201
Bondy, Luc, 373–74, 390
Bongiovanni, Mia, 422n2
Bonnefous, Jean-Pierre, 287
Bonynge, Richard, 251, 300
Boosey & Hawkes, 216
Booth, Edwin, 6
Borda, Deborah, 349
Bori, Lucrezia, 84, 99, 111–12, 119, 122–24, 126, 129, 134, 161, 179
Boris Godunov, 91, 147, 171, 332; 1912–13, 327–28; 1921–22, 327; 1943–44, 166; 1990–91, 329; 2010–11, 375–76
Borodin, Alexander, 327, 335
Borodina, Olga, 348
Brandt, Marianne, 27, 37–38, 396n14
Branzell, Karin, 151–52
Brecht, Bertolt, 280
Breil, Joseph, 135tab, 241tab
Breslin, Herbert, 315
Brewster, Robert S., 124
Brice, Carol, 206
Briggs, John, xv
Brioschi, Anton, 95tab
Britten, Benjamin, 167, 263, 279
Brno Opera (Czechoslovakia), 254
Bronson, Michael, 256
Brook, Peter, 221–22, 341
Brown, Paul, 331, 342, 344
Brownlee, John, 174–75, 177
Brownlee, Lawrence, 378
Brüll, Ignaz, 32
Bruson, Renato, 303
Bumbry, Grace, 141, 209, 225, 247, 269, 296
Burrows, Edwin G., 394nn12,13, 395n2
Bury, John, 287–88, 296
Busch, Fritz, 171–72, 174, 184, 213
Busch, Hans, 194
Busoni, Ferruccio, 342
Butler, Henry, 223
cabaletta (the fast, embellished section of the two-part bel canto aria), 71
Caballé, Montserrat, 225, 247, 259, 263, 284, 346, 356
Cacoyannis, Michael, 239
Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 94
Cady, J. Cleveland, 4, 41
Caldwell, Sarah, 272, 336
Callas, Maria, 21, 23, 211–12, 225, 268, 320, 357, 365, 394n19
Calleja, Joseph, 376
Callery, Mary, 234
Calvé, Emma, 39, 40–42, 42fig, 46, 289, 365
Campana sommesa, La (Respighi): 1928–29, 108
Campanini, Cleofonte, 68, 75–77
Campanini, Italo, 6–9, 14, 16, 19, 396n15
Canaday, John, 233–34
Caniglia, Maria, 160
Canterbury Pilgrims, The (De Koven): 1916–17, 92–93
Caponsacchi (Hageman): 1936–37, 149, 239
Capriccio (Strauss): 1997–98, 344
Carelli, Augusto, 109tab
Carelli, Gabor, 298
Carmen (Bizet), 36, 39, 44, 52, 143–44, 149, 168, 170, 172, 299; 1883–84, 19, 297; 1893–94, 38, 42; 1904–05, 56; 1905–06, 56, 297; 1914–15, 92; 1915–16, 102; 1935–36, 146; 1951–52, 221, 341; 1952–53, 357; 1967–68, 247; 1972–73, 258, 260, 310; 1985–86, 296; 1986–87, 303; 1996–97, 318–19, 321; 2009–10, 375, 391; film (DeMille), 101; film (Rosi), 426; recording, 192, 258, 305
Carnegie, Andrew, 53, 85–86
Carreras, José, 316–17, 319, 419n8
Carrere and Hastings, 41
Carsen, Robert, 333, 348
Carter, Jimmy (president), 184
Caruso, Enrico, 10, 20, 47, 54, 56–58, 61, 68, 70–73, 78–79, 82, 84–85, 87–89, 90fig, 94, 99–100, 102–5, 103fig, 122, 125, 135, 153, 200, 223, 298–99, 315, 355
Castagna, Bruna, 134, 146
Castelmary, Armand, 48tab
Catalani, Alfredo, 83
Catudal, Jasmine, 385tab
Cavalieri, Lina, 71, 84, 223
Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni), 71–72; 1891–92, 40, 44, 297; 1909–10, 84, 355; 1918–19, 299; 1934–35, 130; 1944–45, 180; 1950–51, 194–96, 341; 1957–58, 298; 1958–59, 221; 1969–70, 299; 1977–78, 273; 1985–86, 299
cavatina (the slow first section of the two-part bel canto aria), 71
Cena delle Beffe, La (Giordano), 109tab
Cenerentola, La (Rossini): 1997–98, 22, 325, 343, 394n20
Century Theatre (New York). See New Theatre
Cerha, Friedrich, 278
Ceruti, F. Baptiste, 29tab
Chagall, Marc, 234, 244, 371
Chailly, Riccardo, 287
Chaliapin, Fyodor, 188, 327, 365
Chapin, Schuyler, 253–68, 271, 274, 306, 311, 317, 352
Charlottenburg Opera (Berlin), 183
Charpentier, Gustave, 97tab
Châtelet, Théâtre du (Paris), 84, 226
Chéreau, Patrice, 341
Chicago Civic Opera, 125, 127, 152, 352
Chicago Lyric Opera. See Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago Opera, 86, 104, 135, 138
Chini, Galileo, 106tab
Chkheidze, Temur, 339tab
Choa, Carolyn, 362
Chocolate Soldier, The, film (Del Ruth), 145
Christie, William, 384
Christoff, Boris, 190, 328
Cid, Le (Massenet): 1896–97, 44
Cigna, Gina, 149, 151
Cilea, Francesco, 72
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City Center (New York), 197–98
Civinini, Guelfo, 89
Clark, Bobby, 192
Clark, Graham, 312
Clark, Joseph, 321, 322
Clark, Peter, 420n27
Clément, Edmond, 84–85
Clemenza di Tito, La (Mozart): 1984–85, 296
Cleopatra’s Night (Hadley): 1919–20, 239
Cleva, Fausto, 187, 211, 251
Collins, Janet, 205, 207
Colonnello, Attilio, 245, 247
coloratura (high flexible soprano), 23
Colzani, Anselmo, 214
Comelli, Attilio, 97tab
Compagnacci, I (Riccitelli), 109tab
comprimario (a singer of secondary roles), 14, 15
Comte Ory, Le (Rossini): 2010–11, 22, 375, 378–79
Cone, Frederick, 394n18
Conklin, John, 312, 342, 343
Conley, Eugene, 218
Conlon, James, 330tab
Connecticut Opera (Hartford), 372
Conner, Nadine, 165
Conried, Heinrich, 47, 52, 54, 56–57, 59–60, 62–63, 67–71, 73, 75–77, 79–80, 197, 202, 253, 256, 272, 352, 382, 386
Contes d’Hoffmann, Les (Offenbach), 52, 69, 91; 1936–37, 149; 1955–56, 220; 1973–74, 261; 1981–82, 287; 1984–85, 303; 2009–10, 376, 390, 424n28
Converse, Frederick, 239
Cooke, Terence (cardinal), 272
Cooper, Emil, 170–72, 177–78
Cooper, James Fenimore, 11
Copland, Aaron, 363
Copley, John, 317
Coq d’or, Le (Rimsky-Korsakov), 139, 147, 168, 171, 251; 1917–18, 94, 327; 1936–37, 149
Coquelin, 47
Corani, De Courtney, 17tab, 18tab
Cordon, Norman, 161–62
Corelli, Franco, 111, 210, 225, 247, 251, 259, 269, 356
Corigliano, John, 312, 351
Corsaro, Frank, 304tab
Così fan tutte (Mozart), 174, 269; 1921–22, 105; 1951–52, 220–21; 1981–82, 287; 1995–96, 325, 346; 2013–14, 380
Cossotto, Fiorenza, 259, 299
Cotrubas, Ileana, 278
Covent Garden. See Royal Opera (London)
Cox, John, 339tab
Cravath, Paul D., 116, 118, 124, 126, 128, 134, 147–48, 206–7
Crawford, Bruce, 259, 293–94, 297, 299–303, 304tab, 306–10, 317, 321–22, 324, 352
Crespin, Régine, 224, 278, 290
Crimmins, Craig, 283
Crispino e la comare (Ricci), 16
Crociato in Egitto, Il (Meyerbeer), 36
Croft, Dwayne, 303, 314, 348
Crooks, Richard, 129, 142
Cross, Milton, 116, 355
Crouch, Julian, 369
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, film (Lee), 351
Curtis-Verna, Mary, 212, 225
Cyrano (Damrosch), 240; 1912–13, 239
Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano): 2004–05, 319
Da Costa, Albert, 262fig
Dallapiccola, Luigi, 260
Dallas Opera, 266
Dame Blanche, La (Boieldieu), 29tab
Dame, Donald, 194
Damnation de Faust, La (Berlioz): 1906–07, 369; 2008–09, 369–70, 386
Damrau, Diana, 22, 280, 364, 379
Damrosch, Leopold, 24–25, 27, 36–37, 51, 54, 80, 197, 272, 352, 395n1
Damrosch, Walter, 28, 54, 143
Damrosch-Ellis Grand Opera, 397n20
D’Angelo, Gianna, 216
Daniels, David, 302, 345, 348, 364, 383–84
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 11
Davies, Peter Maxwell, 259
Davis, Andrew, 330tab
Davis, Colin, 188, 251, 274
Davison, Peter, 340tab
Davy, Gloria, 209
Death in Venice (Britten): 1974–75, 263
Death of Klinghoffer, The (Adams), 307
Debussy, Claude, 86, 177
Decker, Willy, 375, 377
De Falla, Manuel, 227
Defrère, Désiré, 132tab, 150tab
Deiber, Paul-Emile, 267tab
De Koven, Reginald, 84
De Lara, Isidore, 51
Del Monaco, Gian Carlo, 318
Del Monaco, Mario, 174, 210–11, 298
Dello Joio, Norman, 240
Delna, Marie, 85
de los Angeles, Victoria, 225, 251
De Luca, Giuseppe, 147, 179, 188
de Lucia, Fernando, 44
de Meuron, Pierre, 377
De Mille, Agnes, 230
Denver, John, 316
Denzler, Robert, 187
De Paolis, Alessio, 161
de Reske, Édouard, 35, 38–39, 43, 45–46, 289, 297
de Reske, Jean, 9, 35, 38–39, 40, 42–43, 45, 45fig, 46–47, 76, 100, 153, 289, 297, 315, 365
Dernesch, Helga, 249
De Sabata, Victor, 188
Dessay, Natalie, 348, 365, 366–68, 376, 377fig, 383
Destinn, Emmy, 82, 84, 88–90, 90fig, 100, 355
Deutekom, Cristina, 263
Dewey, Thomas E. (governor), 162
Dexter, John, 263–64, 268, 271–72, 274, 275–87, 294, 300, 306, 310–11, 341–42, 348, 380
Dialogue des Carmélites (Poulenc): 1976–77, 277–78, 279fig
Diana von Solange (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha): 1890–91, 36
Díaz, Justino, 237
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell): 1972–73, 259
DiDonato, Joyce, 22, 235, 379, 381, 384
Didur, Adamo, 188
Dietz, Howard, 191
Di Giuseppe, Enrico, 243
Dinorah (Meyerbeer): 1891–92, 40
Dippel, Andreas, 76–79, 83
Di Stefano, Giuseppe, 178, 201
Dizikes, John, xv, 394n13
Dobbs, Mattiwilda, 209
Dobujinsky, Mstislav, 170
Doctor Atomic (Adams): 2008–09, 369–70
Doktor Faust (Busoni): 2000–01, 342
Domingo, Marta, 319
Domingo, Plácido, 247, 259, 278, 281, 284, 289–90, 292, 295, 299, 301, 315–19, 316fig, 321, 324, 332, 348, 363, 369, 384
Don Carlo (Verdi): 1920–21, 135, 188; 1950–51, 186, 188–91, 194, 210, 220, 256, 273, 328, 357; 1978–79, 279, 300; 2010–11, 375–76
Don Giovanni (Mozart), 11, 170, 172, 174, 177; 1883–84, 7, 9, 19; 1884–85, 27; 1929–30, 120; 1941–42, 176; 1942–43, 162; 1957–58, 222, 298; 1963–64, 209–10; 1973–74, 261; 1977–78, 273, 358; 1989–90, 301; 2011–12, 381–82
Donizetti, Gaetano, 8, 12–13, 20–21, 346, 394n20
Don Juan, film (Crosland), 138
Donna Juanita (von Suppé): 1931–32, 120
Donne Curiose, Le (Wolf-Ferrari), 96tab
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