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Grand Opera: The Story of the Met

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by Affron, Charles


  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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nbsp; Cimarosa, Domenico, 150tab

  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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