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Mayer, Michael, 382
Mazeppa (Tchaikovsky), 335; 2005–06, 329, 336–37, 390
Mazurok, Yuri, 328
McAnuff, Des, 383
McCarthur, Edwin, 154–55
McCormack, John, 68
McCracken, James, 213, 224, 255, 258, 277, 290, 295
McDermott, Phelim, 369
McDonald, Antony, 319
McFerrin, Robert, 209
McMillan, Jeffrey S., 398n6
McVicar, David, 383
Mead, Rebecca, 421n1
Mefistofele (Boito), 251; 1883–84, 7, 16
Mehta, Bejun, 345
Mehta, Zubin, 239, 253, 274, 306
Meier, Waltraud, 303, 319, 348
Meistersinger, Die (Wagner), 82, 94, 205, 299; 1885–86, 28; 1891–92, 38; 1933–34, 152; 1946–47, 180; 1962–63, 213, 223; 1984–85, 295, 345; 1992–93, 345
Melba, Nellie, 20, 39, 42–46, 67, 69, 99–100, 289, 297, 315
Melchior, Kleinchen, 159
Melchior, Lauritz, 117, 119, 124, 129, 134, 143, 145, 151–55, 154fig, 159, 186, 225, 262, 315, 356
Mendelssohn, Felix, 36
Mennin, Peter, 253, 258
Menotti, Gian Carlo, 194, 217, 218, 240, 281
Mercadante, Saverio, 394n20
Merkling, Frank, 396n16
Merlin (Goldmark): 1886–87, 32
Merola, Gaetano, 143
Merrill, Nathaniel, 213, 222–23, 244, 247–48
Merrill, Robert, 141, 186, 190, 210, 213, 224, 290
Merry Mount (Hanson): 1933–34, 130
Merry Widow, The (Lehár), 295; 1999–2000, 319
messa di voce (the swelling, then diminishing of a protracted note), 8
Messager, André, 76
Messaline (De Lara), 69; 1901–02, 51–52
Messel, Oliver, 216
Metropolitan National Company, 243, 314
Metropolitan Opera Guild, 127, 141, 143–45, 148, 164, 183, 199, 206, 273–74, 336, 388, 389
Meyer, Edgar, 351
Meyer, Kerstin, 216
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 14, 19, 28, 36–37, 47, 277
Michel, Thomas, 354
Midgette, Anne, 369
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Britten): 1996–97, 342
Mielziner, Jo, 197
Mignon (Thomas), 52; 1883–84, 7, 19; 1891–92, 38; 1893–94, 38
Milanov, Zinka, 149, 157, 194–95, 201–3, 210–11, 224, 263, 290, 298, 365
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 120
Miller, Arthur, 314
Miller, Jonathan, 331, 342, 346, 348
Millo, Aprile, 311
Mills, D. Ogden, 63
Milnes, Sherrill, 225, 247, 259, 278, 280, 291
Minghella, Anthony, 362
Miss Donnethrone’s Maggot (Davies), 259
Mitchell, Leona, 290–91, 301
Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 188, 208, 211–12, 218
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 258, 259
Mizrahi, Isaac, 364
Moffo, Anna, 244, 290
Moiseiwitsch, Tanya, 285
Moldoveanu, Vasile, 295
Moll, Kurt, 280, 348
Mona (Parker), 96tab, 242tab
Mona Lisa (von Schillings), 109tab
Montemezzi, Italo, 91
Monteux, Pierre, 188, 251
Montresor, Beni, 217, 244, 281, 317
Montrone, Paul M., 324
Moore, Douglas, 240
Moore, George, 243, 246, 253–54, 257, 263, 268
Moore, Grace, 117, 119, 142–43
Morel, Jean, 217, 251, 269
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 62, 65–66, 73, 80
Morris, James, 280, 301, 348
Morris, Jay Hunter, 388
Morris, Mark, 364, 379
Morris, William, 349, 352
Mortier, Gérard
Moser, Edda, 280
Moses, Montrose, 398n6
Moses, Robert, 228
Moses und Aron (Schoenberg), 300; 1998–99, 342
Moshinsky, Elijah, 281, 296, 332, 348
Mourning Becomes Electra (Levy), 240, 243; 1966–67, 239, 243, 311
Moyers, Allen, 364
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 11, 54, 151, 170–71, 181, 312
Muette de Portici, La. See Masaniello
Müller, Maria, 151, 160
Munich Opera. See Bayerische Staatsoper
Munk, Nina, 421n1, 422n10, 423n21
Munsel, Patrice, 141, 180, 193, 216–17, 224
Murphy, Heidi Grant, 303
Mussback, Peter, 339tab
Mussorgsky, Modest, 91, 120, 166, 168, 296, 327–28, 331
Muti, Riccardo, 274, 306, 377
Muzio, Claudia, 135
My Cousin (film), 102
Nabucco (Verdi): 1960–61, 213, 222; 2000–01, 346
Nagasaka, Motohiro, 221
Nagy, Robert, 259
Navarraise, La (Massenet), 69; 1895–96, 43
Neblett, Carol, 295
Nederlandse Opera, De, 349
Negin, Mark, 304tab
Neher, Caspar, 212, 215
Nelson, John, 264
Nelsons, Andris, 330tab
Nentwig, Franz-Ferdinand, 295
Nessler, Viktor, 32
Netherlands Opera. See Nederlandse Opera, De
Netrebko, Anna, 22, 334, 336, 346, 348, 364–65, 366–67, 376, 381–82
Neubauer Family Foundation, 422n10
New Theatre (New York), 83–86
New York City Opera (New York), 86, 197–98, 204, 216, 229, 238, 243, 251, 264, 266, 314, 321, 372
New York Philharmonic, 395n1
New York State Theatre, 243
Nézet-Séguin, Yannick, 375
Nicolai, Otto, 49tab
Niedecken-Gebhard, Hanns, 121tab
Niemann, Albert, 34
Nilsson, Birgit, 111, 213, 216, 225, 244, 249, 251, 255, 258–59, 261–62, 262fig, 290, 295
Nilsson, Christine, 6–8, 7fig, 10, 16, 19, 393n8
Niska, Maralin, 243
Nixon in China (Adams): 2010–11, 378–79
Nordica, Lillian, 43, 45, 47, 135, 153
Norena, Eidé, 173
Norma (Bellini), 13–14, 16, 20–21, 170; 1889–90, 28, 151; 1927–28, 135; 1928–29, 136; 1953–54, 203; 1969–70, 22; 1972–73, 259
Norman, Jessye, 278, 289–90, 302, 333
Nose, The (Shostakovich): 2013–14, 329, 341, 378
Nott, Michael C., 418n5
Notte di Zoraima, La (Montemezzi): 1931–32, 120
Novak, Joseph, 170
Novotna, Jarmila, 160, 174, 175, 176, 77
Nozze di Figaro, Le (Mozart), 134, 170, 172, 177; 1893–94, 44; 1939–40, 151, 174; 1943–44, 174–75; 1959–60, 220; 1965–66, 226; 1975–76, 281; 1985–86, 320; 1998–99, 325, 346
Oakes, Meredith, 384
Ober, Margarete, 92
Oberon (Weber): 1918–19, 135
Obraztsova, Elena, 328, 420n20
O’Brien, Jack, 364
O’Brien, Timothy, 296
O’Connor, Mark, 351
Odéon, Théâtre de (Paris), 226
Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky), 351; 1981–82, 287
Oenslager, Donald, 178, 280
Offenbach, Jacques, 216
Ohana, Maurice, 259
O’Hearn, Robert, 213, 223, 244, 247–48
Ohms, Elisabeth, 152
Oistrakh, David, 328
Olivero, Magda, 266
Olszewska, Maria, 152
O’Neill, Eugene, 130, 191, 221
Opéra, Theâtre de l’ (Paris), 3, 84, 253, 284, 349, 393n3
Opera Boston (Massachusetts), 372
Opera News, 145, 198–199, 379, 388–89
opéra-bouffe (genre of French comic opera associated with Offenbach), 216
opéra-comique (genre of French opera with spoken dialogue), 6
Opéra-Comique (Paris), 84
Oracolo, L’ (Leoni), 91
Ordynski, Richard, 98tab, 107tab
Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), 170, 172, 307; 1893–94,
44; 1935–36, 146; 1938–49, 173; 1939–40, 173; 1941–42, 173; 2006–07, 364
Ormandy, Eugene, 192
Ostling, Daniel, 367
Otello (Verdi), 129, 173; 1891–92, 40, 297; 1909–10, 84; 1937–38, 149, 173; 1939–40, 173; 1945–46, 174; 1946–47, 173; 1948–49, 357; 1957–58, 298; 1962–63, 213; 1979–80, 274; 1993–94, 318, 332; 1995–96, 321; film (Zeffirelli), 316
Otto, Teo, 219tab
Ötvös, Gabor, 251, 261
Owens, Eric, 388
Ozawa, Seiji, 270, 306, 331, 351
Pacini, Giovanni, 394n20
Paderewski, Ignacy, 51
Pagano, Mauro, 339tab
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), 71, 82, 102, 356; 1893–94, 44; 1909–10, 84, 355; 1934–35, 131; 1950–51, 194–96, 341; 1958–59, 221; 1969–70, 248; 1974–75, 272; 1977–78, 273; 1994–95, 315
Palmo, Ferdinand, 11, 25
Palmo’s Opera House (New York), 11–12
Panizza, Ettore, 151, 174, 176, 187
Pape, René, 345, 348, 365, 376, 383
Pappano, Antonio, 333
Paquereau, Paul, 95–96tab
Parade (Satie; Ravel; Poulenc): 1980–81, 285
Parker, Horatio, 96tab
Parravicini, Angelo, 95tab
Parravicini, Camillo, 121tab
Parry, William, 48–50tab
Parsifal (Wagner), 32, 91, 94, 134, 155; 1903–04, 56–59, 60, 62, 69, 70, 73, 197, 386; 1934–35, 131; 1970–71, 248; 1978–79, 275; 1990–91, 318; 2012–13, 365, 381, 383, 390
Pascoe, John, 302
Pavarotti, Luciano, 259, 280, 281, 284, 287, 290–91, 315–17, 316fig, 318, 358
Pears, Peter, 263, 279
Pêcheurs de perles, Les (Bizet), 269; 1895–96, 44
Peduzzi, Richard, 341, 373
Peel, “Colonel,” 297
Peel, Mrs., 297
Peerce, Jan, 192, 328
Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy), 52, 69, 82, 86, 170, 173; 1924–25, 108; 1934–35, 135; 1943–44, 177; 1944–45, 177; 1994–95, 342
Pelly, Laurent, 368, 382
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 130
Périchole, La (Offenbach): 1956–57, 215–17, 220; recording, 217
Perry, John M., 129
Peter Grimes (Britten): 1947–48, 167, 171, 179; 1966–67, 243–44; 1972–73, 259; 1983–84, 299; 2007–08, 369–70
Peter Ibbetson (Taylor): 1930–31, 120; 1933–34, 126
Peters, Roberta, 217, 226
Petersen, Marlis, 376
Petrenko, Kirill, 330tab
Petrov, Ivan, 328
Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, 215
Philadelphia Opera House, 85
Philémon et Baucis (Gounod): 1893–94, 43
Phillips, Harvey E., 415n32
Phillips, Helen, 206–7
Phoebus and Pan (Bach): 1941–42, 167
Piccolo Marat, Il (Mascagni), 417n23
Picker, Tobias, 314
Pinza, Ezio, 119, 125, 134, 143, 149, 151, 161–62, 174–77
Pipe of Desire, The (Converse): 1909–10, 239
Piper, John, 267tab
Pirata, Il (Bellini), 21; 2002–03, 22, 346
Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 110tab
Plançon, Pol, 39, 43, 73
Plisetskaya, Maya, 234
Plishka, Paul, 243
Pogany, Willy, 98tab, 106tab, 107tab
Polaski, Deborah, 337
Polenzani, Matthew, 280
Polish Jew, The (Weis): 1920–21, 327
Poliuto (Donizetti), 21
Ponchielli, Amilcare, 16
Ponnelle, Jean-Pierre, 261, 281, 283, 287, 296, 302
Pons, Lily, 119, 124, 130, 134, 143, 166, 192, 220, 224, 298
Ponselle, Rosa, 10, 129–30, 134–36, 140, 146, 149, 151, 188, 223, 298–99, 310
Popov, Vladimir, 299
Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 296, 328; 1984–85, 296
Porter, Andrew, 280–81, 287, 288, 296, 302
Portrait de Manon, Le (Massenet), 259
Poulenc, Francis, 285
Pountney, David, 313
Prada, Miuccia, 377
Preziose ridicule, Le (Lattuada): 1930–31, 120
Price, Leontyne, 204, 209, 210, 225, 227, 237–38, 247, 274, 277, 290, 296, 356
Prigioniero, Il (Dallapiccola), 260
prima donna assoluta (a company’s leading soprano who excels in a wide-ranging repertoire, as exemplified by Lilli Lehmann), 28
Prince Igor (Borodin), 335; 1915–16, 327
Prince, Harold, 302
Profet, Der (Meyerbeer): 1884–85, 36–38
Profeta, Il (Meyerbeer): 1883–84, 36–37
Prokofiev, Sergei, 336, 351
Prophète, Le (Meyerbeer), 51; 1883–84, 19, 297; 1884–85, 27; 1891–92, 36, 38; 1976–77, 277, 278, 342
Puccini, Giacomo, 47, 57, 69, 71–73, 75, 86–90, 87fig, 105, 108, 111
Pühringer, Hans, 109tab
Purcell, Henry, 259
Puritani, I (Bellini), 11, 21; 1917–18, 20, 1975–76, 22, 280, 283, 347; 2006–07, 358, 364, 366–67
Putin, Vladimir, 334
Quaranta, Gianni, 301
Queen of Spades, The (Tchaikovsky), 284, 332; 1909–10, 83, 327–28; 1972–73, 259; 1995–96, 329, 33–333; 1998–99, 335; 2008–09, 331
Quilico, Gino, 312
Quintero, José, 221
Quivar, Florence, 296
Rabaud, Henri, 20
Racette, Patricia, 314, 321, 366
Radvanovsky, Sondra, 319, 366
Rahn, Muriel, 206
Raimondi, Ruggero, 291
Rake’s Progress, The (Stravinsky), 254; 1952–53, 215, 217–18; 1997–98, 342
Ralf, Torsten, 162, 165, 174
Ramey, Samuel, 292, 301–2, 314
Raskin, Judith, 214
Ravel, Maurice, 285
Ravogli, Giulia, 38
Ray, E. B., 207
Red Violin, The, film (Girard), 351
Regietheater (director’s opera), 341
Reine Fiammette, La (Le Roux), 106tab
Reiner, Fritz, 67, 171–72, 174, 178, 191–92, 199
Relyea, John, 345
Renaud, Maurice, 68
Rennert, Gunther, 213, 222, 264
Reppa, David, 278–80
Requiem (Verdi): 1908–09, 83
Resnik, Regina, 141, 175, 178, 180, 214, 218, 224, 244, 365
Respighi, Ottorino, 110tab
Rethberg, Elisabeth, 119, 129, 134, 144, 151–52, 173–74, 180, 224
Reyer, Ernest, 51
Rheingold, Das (Wagner), 94; 1888–89, 28; 1938–39, 180; 1968–69, 249; 2010–11, 365, 386–87
Ricci, Federico, 16, 394n20
Ricci, Luigi, 16, 394n20