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Grand Opera: The Story of the Met

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by Affron, Charles


  Trittico, Il (Puccini): 1918–19, 105, 298; 1975–76, 105, 280, 283; 1989–90, 303; 2006–07, 362, 364

  Trompeter von Säkkingen, Der (Nessler): 1887–88, 32

  Trovatore, Il (Verdi), 14, 168, 201; 1883–84, 16, 19, 358; 1940–41, 170; 1959–60, 212, 247; 1964–65, 245; 1968–69, 247, 315; 1987–88, 302; 1988–89, 358; 2000–01, 343–44, 374; 2008–09, 368

  Troyanos, Tatiana, 278

  Troyens, Les (Berlioz): 1973–74, 260–61; 1983–84, 289

  Truman, Harry S. (president), 162

  Tsypin, George, 336–37

  Tucci, Gabriella, 213–14

  Tucker, Richard, 141, 165, 193, 194–95, 198, 210–11, 217, 222, 224, 272, 358

  Tuggle, Robert, 393n9, 401n17, 406n8

  Tuminia, Josephine, 145

  Turandot (Puccini), 305; 1926–27, 108, 111; 1960–61, 111, 221–22; 1986–87, 300–301

  Turco in Italia, Il (Rossini), 21

  Turn of the Screw, The (Britten), 251

  Twachtman, David, 150tab

  Uhde, Hermann, 215

  Uppman, Theodore, 217

  Upshaw, Dawn, 303, 314

  Urban, Joseph, 108, 168, 197

  Valdengo, Giuseppe, 178

  Valente, Benita, 292

  Valero, Fernando, 40

  Valleria, Alwina, 19

  Valletti, Cesare, 225, 251, 298

  Van Dam, José, 283

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, IV, 124

  Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Mrs., 113, 125

  Vanderbilt, William Henry, 1–2, 5, 125

  Vanderbilt, William K., 53, 79

  Vaness, Carol, 303, 320

  Vanessa (Barber), 240; 1957–58, 218

  Van Hell (director), 30tab

  van Rooy, Anton, 61

  Van Zandt, Marie, 39–40

  Vargas, Ramón, 348

  Varis, Agnes, 354

  Varnay, Astrid, 159, 180, 191, 264, 365

  Varviso, Silvio, 251

  Veltri, Michelangelo, 251

  Verchi, Nino, 251

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 12, 14, 16, 20, 54, 82, 91, 100, 210–14, 305

  verismo (in this context, a manner derived from literary naturalism, adopted by late nineteenth-century Italian composers of opera), 71–72, 86

  Verrett, Shirley, 261, 278, 281, 289, 365

  Versalle, Richard, 333

  Versiegelt (Blech), 96tab

  Vespri Siciliani, I (Verdi): 1973–74, 260, 263, 276; 1974–75, 263

  Vestale, La (Spontini): 1925–26, 108

  Vianesi, Auguste, 2, 7, 19

  Viardot, Pauline, 396n14

  Vick, Graham, 331, 342, 344

  Vickers, Jon, 224, 244, 259, 261–62, 264, 280, 290, 296, 301, 356, 365

  Victory Theatre (New York), 259

  Vida Breve, La (De Falla), 110tab

  View from the Bridge, A (Bolcom): 2002–03, 314–15

  Vigna, Arturo, 72

  Vilar, Alberto W., 323–25, 336, 420n16

  Villa, Luigi, 159, 160

  Villazón, Rolando, 376

  Villi, Le (Puccini): 1908–09, 83

  Vinay, Ramon, 174, 194, 262fig, 290

  Violanta (Korngold), 110tab

  Visconti, Luchino, 374

  Vishnevskaya, Galina, 328

  Vittadini, Franco, 109tab

  Vogt, Howard, 405n41

  Voigt, Deborah, 348, 363, 366, 388

  voix mixte (melding of chest voice and head voice), 277

  Volpe, Joseph, 184, 196, 265, 272, 276, 284, 289, 293, 306, 308, 309–11, 314, 316fig, 317, 319–26, 328, 334, 335, 343–44, 346–49, 352–53, 356, 358, 361, 364, 371–72, 390, 419n12

  von Otter, Anne Sofie, 303

  von Stade, Frederica, 281, 290, 319

  von Suppé, Franz, 120

  Voyage, The (Glass), 321; 1992–93, 312–14

  Wadmond, Lowell, 196–98, 256

  Wadsworth, Stephen, 345, 369, 376

  Wagner, Cosima, 57, 62

  Wagner, Richard, 5, 16, 27–28, 32, 36, 38, 44–46, 54, 58, 69, 145, 151–55, 168, 172, 210, 259, 386, 388

  Wagner, Robert (mayor), 245

  Wagner, Wieland, 244, 342

  Wagner’s Dream, film (Froemke), 386

  Wald, Der (Smyth): 1902–03), 51

  Walküre, Die (Wagner), 94; 1884–85, 26–27, 386; 1934–35, 131; 1935–36, 386; 1937–38, 153; 1939–40, 155; 1967–68, 248–49; 1986–87, 301; 2010–11, 387, 387fig

  Wallace, Mike, 394nn12,13, 395n2

  Wallenstein, Lothar, 169tab

  Wallmann, Margherita, 222

  Wally, La (Catalani): 1908–09, 83

  Walter, Bruno, 153, 157–59, 158fig, 161–62, 170, 172–77, 187–89, 194

  War and Peace (Prokofiev), 332, 336; 2001–02, 325, 329, 335–36, 337, 337fig

  Ward, Anthony, 338tab

  Warren, George Henry, 3

  Warren, Leonard, 141, 149, 174, 178, 186, 194, 210–13, 229, 298, 356, 357

  Warrior, The (Rogers): 1946–47, 167

  Washington National Opera, 319, 325, 349

  Weathers, Felicia, 209

  Weber, Carl Maria von, 28, 135

  Webster, Margaret, 189, 210, 212, 220, 263, 328, 365

  Wechsler, Bert, 405n30

  Weill, Kurt, 280

  Weinberger, Jaromir, 120

  Weinstat, Hertzel, 405n30

  Weis, Karel, 327

  Welitsch, Ljuba, 67, 179, 191, 193, 365

  Welsh National Opera (UK), 269

  Wernicke, Herbert, 343

  Werther (Massenet), 39, 44, 52; 1894–95, 43; 1909–10, 84; 1970–71, 247

  Wexler, Peter, 261, 277, 281

  Wharton, Edith, 6

  Wheeldon, Christopher, 375

  White, Stanford, 63

  White, Walter, 205

  Whitehead, Robert, 420n18

  Whitney, William C., 53

  Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Der (Goetz): 1915–16, 92

  Wilde, Oscar, 5, 60, 65

  Wilder, Thornton, 240

  Wilford, Ronald, 263, 266, 270, 293, 306, 350

  Williams, Camilla, 205

  Williams, John, 351

  William Tell (Rossini), 20, 27, 29tab, 52

  Wilson, George W., 53

  Wilson, Robert, 312–13, 343, 348

  Wilson, Woodrow (president), 92

  Winchell, Walter, 161–62

  Winfield, Oscar Hemsley, 205–6

  Winters, Lawrence, 205–6

  Wise, Steven S. (rabbi), 166, 310

  Witherspoon, Herbert, 127–29, 131, 133–35, 143, 256, 352

  Wixell, Ingvar, 259

  Wolff, Albert, 106tab

  Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 319

  Wonder, Erich, 339tab

  Wood, Cynthia, 324

  Woolcock, Penny, 370

  Wozzeck (Berg): 1958–59, 215; 1984–85, 295; 1996–97, 345; 2013–14, 380

  Wymetal, Wilhelm, 109tab, 110tab

  Yannopoulus, Dino, 222

  Yarborough, Catherine, 206

  Yeargan, Michael, 364, 376, 379

  Yeltsin, Boris, 334

  Yimou, Zhang, 362

  Young, Simone, 416n4

  Yue, Fan, 362

  Zajick, Dolora, 303, 314

  Zambello, Francesca, 314, 343

  Zandonai, Riccardo, 20

  Zanetto (Mascagni), 72

  Zanganari, Carlo, 89

  Zar und Zimmermann (Lortzing): 1909–10, 84

  Zauberflöte, Die (Mozart), 168, 172, 174, 177, 353; 1942–43, 162, 176–77; 1955–56, 222; 1966–67, 243, 244; 1990–91, 310–11; 2004–05, 346; 2006–07, 358, 364

  Zazà (Leoncavallo), 108; 1921–22, 104

  Zeffirelli, Franco, 214, 237, 248, 285–87, 291, 294–95, 300–302, 305, 319, 346, 348, 373–74, 377

  Ziegler, Edward, 103, 119, 123, 127, 129, 133, 137–38, 146–47, 151, 154, 181–82, 205–7, 215, 297, 327

  Ziff, Ann, 371

  Zigeunerbaron, Der (Strauss, II): 1905–06, 73; 1959–60, 221

  Zilkha, Cecile, 294, 300, 417n27

 
; Zimmerman, Mary, 367, 378, 385tab

  Zirato, Bruno, 125

 

 

 


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