Riccitelli, Primo, 109tab
Rich, Alan, 214, 217, 250
Richmond, Yale, 420n20
Ricker, Charles, 256
Ricordi, Tito, 76
Rienzi (Wagner), 134
Rigal, Delia, 190, 194
Rigoletto (Verdi), 8, 14, 138, 143–44, 168; 1883–84, 19; 1884–85, 27; 1903–04, 56, 188; 1925–26, 137; 1951–52, 210, 220; 1977–78, 273, 277; 2012–13, 381–83, 390
Rimsky-Korsakov, 94, 120, 171, 327
Rinaldo (Handel): 1983–84, 292, 299
“Ring, The,” 26, 28, 82, 155; 1898–99, 47; 1947–48, 170, 197, 386; 1950–51, 186; 1967–73, 248–49, 300, 386; 1986–88, 300, 303, 350, 386; 1989–90, 388; 2010–12, 386–91
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Weill): 1979–80, 280
Ritchard, Cyril, 217, 220
Robert le diable (Meyerbeer): 1883–84, 19
Roberto Devereux (Donizetti), 251
Robertson, David, 330tab
Robeson, Paul, 205, 207
Robinson, Francis, 185
Robin Woman, The: Shanewis (Cadman): 1917–18, 94
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 115, 117–18, 125, 227, 254
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., Mrs., 246
Rockefeller, John D., III, 228
Rockefeller, Martha Baird, 271
Rockefeller, Nelson (governor), 230
Rockefeller, William, 264, 268, 273, 284
Rockwell, John, 285–86
Rodelinda (Handel): 2004–05, 345
Rodzinski, Artur, 331
Rogers, Bernard, 167
Roi de Lahore, Le (Massenet): 1923–24, 108
Roi d’Ys (Lalo), 107tab
Roman, Stella, 174
Roméo et Juliette (Gounod), 14, 16, 39, 41, 52, 75; 1883–84, 9, 297; 1891–92, 38–40; 1967–68, 247; 1985–86, 299; 1986–87, 303; 2005–06, 346
Rondine, La (Puccini): 1927–28, 111; 2008–09, 368
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 123, 143
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (president), 122
Roosevelt, James A., 53, 122
Röschmann, Dorothea, 348
Rose, Jürgen, 302, 345
Rosenkavalier, Der (Strauss), 91, 171, 215; 1949–50, 257; 1968–69, 247; 1972–73, 259; 1992–93, 320
Rosenstock, Joseph, 251
Rosenthal, Manuel, 285, 300
Ross, Alex, 362, 379
Rossignol, Le (Stravinsky): 1925–26, 108, 328; 1981–82, 287; 2003–04, 329
Rossini, Gioachino, 9, 11–12, 15, 20–22, 36, 312, 346, 358
Rostand, Edmond, 319
Rostropovich, Mstislav, 270
Roswaenge, Helge, 160
Roth, Wolfgang, 219tab
Rothaug, Leopold, 74tab
Rovescalli, Antonio, 95–97tab, 107tab, 109tab
Royal Opera (London), 46, 76, 216, 254, 284, 322, 333, 360, 366, 375
Royal Swedish Opera, 253–54, 352
Rudel, Julius, 296
Rudolf, Max, 185–86, 203, 230
Ruffo, Titta, 104
Rusalka (Dvořák), 331; 1993–94, 329, 331; 2003–04, 331
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Glinka), 335
Rychtarik, Richard, 168, 170, 175–76
Rysanek, Leonie, 202, 212–13, 216, 244, 248, 259, 331, 365
Sacco and Vanzetti (Blitzstein), 240
Sachse, Leopold, 150tab
Sacre du printemps (Stravinsky): 1981–82, 287
Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov): 1929–30, 120, 328
Sadler’s Wells (London), 167
Saint Elizabeth (Liszt): 1917–18, 94
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 351
Sala, Mario, 95tab, 97–98tab
Salammbô (Reyer), 69; 1900–01, 51–52
Saléza, Albert, 47
Salome: play (Wilde), 60
Salome (Strauss), 66, 82, 170, 215; 1906–07, 57, 60–66, 73, 205; 1933–34, 67, 126, 130; 1948–49, 67, 70, 172, 178; 1964–65, 22; 1988–89, 302–3, 342; 2003–04, 342–43, 390
Salonen, Esa-Pekka, 341
Salzburger Festspiele, 248, 258, 306, 349, 360
Samaritani, Pier Luigi, 291
Sams, Jeremy, 384
Samson (Handel): 1985–86, 296
Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns), 52; 1894–95, 43; 1917–18, 94; 1964–65, 223; 1985–86, 296; 1997–98, 318–19
Sanderson, Sybil, 39, 43
San Francisco Opera, 143, 154, 190, 269, 281, 307, 311, 371
Sanine, Alexander, 121tab, 132tab
San Martino di Valperga (count of), 76
Santi, Nello, 251, 292
Sargeant, Winthrop, 213
Sarnoff, David, 155, 182
Satie, Eric, 285
Satterlee, Louisa (née Morgan), 62
Satyagraha (Glass), 313; 2007–08, 314, 369–70, 369fig
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (duke of), 36
Sayaõ, Bidú, 165, 174–77, 186, 224, 356
Scala, La (Milan), 76–77, 81, 86, 108, 134, 266, 271, 322, 352, 360, 373, 384
Scalchi, Sofia, 15, 19, 37–8, 43
Scarlet Letter, The (Giannini), 240
Schaeffer, William, 17tab, 18tab, 29tab
Schalk, Franz, 47
Schavernoch, Hans, 304tab
Schelemskaya-Schelesnaya, Nina (Mrs. Rudolf Bing), 183
Schenk, Otto, 248, 281, 287, 300–301, 346, 348, 386, 388
Schertel, Anton, 74tab, 95–96tab
Schillings, Max von, 109tab
Schipa, Tito, 161
Schippers, Thomas, 237
Schlusnuss, Heinrich, 160
Schmidt, Douglas, 364
Schmidt-Isserstedt, Hans, 187
Schneider-Siemssen, Gunther, 248, 263, 281, 287, 300, 331, 348, 386, 388
Schoeffel, John B., 35, 39, 41, 46, 52, 297
Schoenberg, Arnold, 302
Schonberg, Harold, 213, 223
Schorr, Friedrich, 125, 129, 151–52, 160, 179, 180
Schroeder, Karl, 74tab
Schuman, William, 240
Schumann, Elisabeth, 399n15
Schwanda the Bagpiper (Weinberger): 1931–32, 120, 328
Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth, 218
Scott, Michael (Caruso biographer), 402n24
Scott, Michael (designer), 318–19, 362
Scotti, Antonio, 10, 47, 61, 68, 78–79, 82, 84, 91, 139, 365
Scotto, Renata, 225, 277, 280–81, 288, 292, 312, 358, 365
Scribe, Eugène, 14, 37
Seattle Opera (Washington), 261
Sébastian, Georges, 187
Segreto di Susanna, Il (Wolf-Ferrari), 96tab
Seidl, Anton, 28, 45, 51, 58, 187, 272
Sellars, Peter, 302, 379
Sembach, Johannes, 92
Sembrich, Marcella, 8–10, 19, 47, 51, 61, 70, 78, 124, 393n9
Semiramide (Rossini), 15; 1891–92, 40; 1990–91, 22, 346
Sequi, Sandro, 267tab
Serafin, Tullio, 108, 119–20, 139, 187
Serban, Andrei, 345
Sergi, Arturo, 225
Serkin, Rudolf, 269
Serva padrona, La (Pergolesi): 1934–35, 130; 1942–43, 170
Sessions, Roger, 240
Seymour, John Lawrence, 132tab
Shapiro, Marilyn, 284, 289, 309
Shearer, George L. (Rev. Dr.), 58
Sheer, Gene, 314
Sher, Bartlett, 364, 375–76, 379, 381
Sherwin-Williams, 149
Sherwood, Robert E., 196
Shicoff, Neil, 343
Shir, Jay, 416n5
Shirley, George, 209
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 329, 331–32, 341, 344, 378
Siedle, Edward, 96tab
Siege of Corinth, The (Rossini): 1974–75, 22, 265–66
Siegfried (Wagner): 1887–88, 28, 151; 1896–97, 45; 1936–37, 153; 1938–39, 180; 1941–42, 180; 1972–73, 249, 258; 2011–12, 387
Siepi, Cesare, 190, 210–11, 213, 248
Sievert, Ludwig, 97tab
Signor Bruschino, Il (Rossini), 132tab
Sills, Beverly, 22, 238, 265–66, 27
8, 281, 326, 349
Simionato, Giulietta, 212
Simon, Erich, 159
Simon Boccanegra (Verdi): 1931–32, 120, 189; 1932–33, 123, 140; 1959–60, 212; 1985–86, 295; 1994–95, 318
Simonson, Lee, 170, 386
Singher, Martial, 177
Singspiel (genre of German opera with spoken dialogue), 168
Sinopoli, Giuseppe, 295
Slezak, Leo, 84
Sloan, George, 182, 246
Sly (Wolf-Ferrari): 2001–02, 319
Smart, Mary Ann, 423n14
Smith, Cecil, 178
Smyth, Ethel, 51
Snegurochka (Rimsky-Korsakov): 1921–22, 327
Söderström, Elisabeth, 290
Solov, Zachary, 205
Solti, Georg, 188, 213, 251, 274
Sonnambula, La (Bellini): 1883–84, 9; 1931–32, 20, 130; 1962–63, 223; 2008–09, 367–68, 374, 378
Sooter, Edward, 295
soprano leggero (light soprano voice), 21
Sordello, Enzo, 394n19
Soudeikine, Serge, 110tab, 121stab
Southern, Hugh, 307–9, 352
Speck, Jules, 95–98tab
Splendid Romance, A (film), 102
Spofford, Charles M., 182, 197, 227–29
Spontini, Gaspare, 28
Sprechstimme (vocal production between speech and song), 167
St. Leger, Frank, 182, 185
Staatsoper (Berlin), 171
Staatsoper Hamburg, 254, 257, 268
Stagno, Roberto, 19
Stalin, Josef, 332
Stanton, Edmund C., 27, 32, 34–36, 43, 51, 54, 73, 352, 365
Star Wars, film (Lucas), 351
Steane, J. B., 394n10
Steber, Eleanor, 141, 174, 178–79, 192, 215–16, 218, 224, 290, 298
Stein, Peter, 376
Steinway, William, 46
Stella, Antonietta, 212, 225, 298
Stephens, Percy Rector, 127
Stern, Isaac, 229, 230, 328
Stevens, Risë, 141, 165, 174, 180, 192–93, 203, 216, 224, 229, 243, 290, 298, 365
Stewart, James B., 420n16
Stewart, Thomas, 290
Stiedry, Fritz, 182, 187, 211, 251
Stiffelio (Verdi): 1993–94, 318
Stignani, Ebe, 160, 190
Still, William Grant, 240
Stilwell, Richard, 280
Stokowski, Leopold, 215, 230
Stratas, Teresa, 217, 224, 278, 280, 303, 312, 365
Strauss, Johann, II, 73, 216
Strauss, Richard, 57, 60, 65–66, 86, 92, 108, 216, 218, 369
Stravinsky: 1981–82, 287; 2003–04, 336
Stravinsky, Igor, 218
Strehler, Giorgio, 254, 255
Stroppa, Pietro, 106tab
Studer, Cheryl, 303
Sudermann, Hermann, 61
Sullivan, Ed, 357–58
Suor Angelica (Puccini): 1918–19, 105; 2006–07, 364
Susannah (Floyd), 243, 251; 1998–99, 314
Sutherland, Joan, 21–22, 22fig, 222–23, 225, 251, 259, 261, 280, 290, 295, 300, 346, 347
Svanholm, Set, 179
Swarthout, Gladys, 129
Swedish National Opera. See Royal Swedish Opera
Sweet, Sharon, 303, 319
Swenson, Ruth Ann, 302
Swoboda, Josef, 256, 258, 263, 280
Syllabaire pour Phèdre (Ohana): 1972–73, 259
Székely, Mihály, 328
Szell, George, 171–72, 174, 213, 269, 412n54
Tabarro, Il (Puccini): 1918–19, 105; 1945–46, 170; 1994–95, 315; 2006–07, 364
Tagliabue, Carlo, 160
Tagliavini, Ferruccio, 179, 201
Talley, Marion, 135, 137–38, 140
Tamagno, Franceso, 43, 396n18
Taming of the Shrew, The. See Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Der
Tannhäuser (Wagner), 51, 94, 255, 295, 310; 1884–85, 26; 1935–36, 153; 1953–54, 222; 1977–78, 281
Taplin, Frank E., 273, 283
Taubman, Howard, 156–57, 177
Tauscher, Hans, 93
Taylor, Deems, 81, 116, 117fig, 120, 198
Taylor, Loomis, 96tab
Taymor, Julie, 346
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, 83, 222, 327, 329, 333, 335, 337
Tchakarov, Emil, 330tab
Tebaldi, Renata, 174, 190, 211, 213, 223, 225, 244, 268, 298, 358
Te Kanawa, Kiri, 287, 290, 301, 320, 344
Telva, Marion, 136
Tempest, The (Adès): 2012–13, 381, 384, 391
Temple Dancer, The (Hugo), 106tab
tenore di grazia (light, flexible tenor voice), 22
Terfel, Bryn, 348, 365, 388
Ternina, Milka, 9, 47, 59, 104
Tetrazzini, Luisa, 69, 75, 86
Texaco, 143, 355, 357
Thaïs (Massenet), 39, 69; 1977–78, 281; 2008–09, 365, 368
Thebom, Blanche, 179, 218
Thewman, Samuel, 106–7tab, 109–10tab
Theyard, Harry, 243
Thielemann, Christian, 320
Thomas, Ambroise, 19
Thomas, Chantal, 382
Thomas, Jess, 216, 258, 261, 290
Thomas, Theodore, 24, 26
Thompson (designer), 17–18tab
Thompson, Mark, 332
Thompson, Oscar, 173
Thomson, Virgil, 166, 176–78, 180–81, 189, 191, 195, 201
Thorborg, Kerstin, 159, 173
Thuille, Ludwig, 96tab
Tibbett, Lawrence, 122–23, 126, 130, 134–35, 138–40, 140fig, 142–43, 147, 149, 173, 177–79, 186, 205–6, 365
Tiefland (d’Albert): 1908–09, 83
Titanic, film (Cameron), 351
Toll Brothers, 326
Tolstoi, Leo, 336
Tommasini, Anthony, 380
Tomowa-Simtow, Anna, 284, 290
Tosca (Puccini), 78, 303; 1900–01, 47, 71; 1906–07, 68; 1909–10, 84, 355; 1913–14, 99; 1920–21, 104; 1921–22, 366; 1949–50, 179; 1956–57, 298; 1964–65, 225; 1970–71, 269; 1972–73, 259; 1974–75, 266; 1975–76, 272, 294; 1984–85, 295–96, 300–301, 373; 2009–10, 365, 373–74, 389–90; recording, 217
Toscanini, Arturo, 76–79, 81, 82–85, 87fig, 87–90, 91–92, 124, 134, 153, 157, 173–74, 178, 187, 226
Tozzi, Giorgio, 218
Traubel, Helen, 146, 165, 186–87, 225
Traviata, La (Verdi), 68–69, 86, 143–44; 1883–84, 9, 14, 19; 1934–35, 130; 1935–36, 149, 188; 1956–57, 211–12, 298; 1966–67, 237, 243–44; 1975–76, 272; 1980–81, 285; 1989–90, 300–301; 1998–99, 320, 346; 2010–11, 375–77, 377fig, 390; film (Zeffirelli), 316
Trebelli, Zelia, 19
Tresca, Carlo, 161
Triangle Studio, 107tab
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), 94, 143–44, 153, 168, 172; 1886–87, 28; 1895–96, 45; 1908–09, 83; 1909–10, 83; 1916–17, 93; 1931–32, 117; 1932–33, 152; 1934–35, 152; 1940–41, 145; 1959–60, 222; 1971–72, 248; 1973–74, 260–62; 1999–2000, 326, 345; recording, 165
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