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Opera
Step into a world where passion sings louder than reason, and every shadow hides a secret waiting for the curtain to rise. From haunted theaters and doomed lovers to kings, outcasts, and hearts driven toward ruin, this bookshelf gathers stories steeped in grandeur, danger, and unforgettable emotion. These are the dramas behind the music—rich with spectacle, obsession, and the fatal beauty of the stage.
105 Audiobooks
Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman
by Ben Jonson
The Robbers
by Friedrich Schiller
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Le Roi s'amuse
by Victor Hugo
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
War and Peace
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Die Leiden des jungen Werther — Band 2
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
Oberon
by Christoph Martin Wieland
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
by George Ainslie Hight
Hernani
by Victor Hugo
Scènes de la vie de Bohème
by Henri Murger
La dame aux camélias
by Alexandre Dumas
Don Álvaro, o, La fuerza del Sino
by duque de Angel de Saavedra Rivas
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score
by Lawrence Gilman
The Bride of Lammermoor
by Walter Scott
Jerusalem Delivered
by Torquato Tasso
Gullible's Travels, Etc.
by Ring Lardner
Wilhelm Tell
by Friedrich Schiller
Boris Godunov: a drama in verse
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians
by John F. Runciman
A House of Pomegranates
by Oscar Wilde
Opera Stories from Wagner
by Florence Akin
Le Mariage de Loti
by Pierre Loti
The Borough
by George Crabbe
Thaïs
by Anatole France
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
by Samuel Richardson
Die Leiden des jungen Werther — Band 1
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thais
by Anatole France
Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
by H. R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis
Riders to the Sea
by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
The Queen Of Spades
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
The Castle of Andalusia: A Comic Opera, in Three Acts
by John O'Keeffe
Amadis of Gaul, an opera As it is perform'd at the King's Theatre in the Hay-market
by Nicola Francesco Haym
La Esmeralda
by Victor Hugo
El trovador
by Antonio García Gutiérrez
L'Endimione
by Pietro Metastasio
The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay
A Second Book of Operas
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 5
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner
Alcestis
by Euripides
La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro
by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Fontainbleau; a comic opera. In three acts
by John O'Keeffe
Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts
by Richard Wagner
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
by Henri Murger
Kabale und Liebe: Ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel
by Friedrich Schiller
New version of Les contes d'Hoffmann (The tales of Hoffman)
by Jacques Offenbach
The Valkyries
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson, Richard Wagner
Carmen
by Prosper Mérimée
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts
by Charles Gounod, Jules Barbier, Michel Carré
The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers (12th edition)
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
La Tosca: Drame en cinq actes
by Victorien Sardou
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
The Duenna: A Comic Opera
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mithridate
by Jean Racine
Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces
by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
Der Fliegende Hollaender The Flying Dutchman
by Richard Wagner
A Parody on Iolanthe
by D. (Davison) Dalziel
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"
by Lewis Melville
The Girl of the Golden West
by David Belasco
Libretto: La Bohème
by Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
Mary Stuart: A Tragedy
by Friedrich Schiller
The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie The Ring of the Niblung, part 1
by Richard Wagner
Parsifal A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation
by Oliver Huckel, Richard Wagner
Stories of the Wagner Opera
by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Song of the Lark
by Willa Cather
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 1
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and Inquiries
by Lawrence Gilman
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas
by John F. Runciman
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
by W. J. (William James) Henderson
Manon Lescaut
by abbé Prévost
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 4
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts
by Engelbert Humperdinck, Adelheid Wette
The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides
by Euripides
The Lady of the Lake
by Walter Scott
Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods The Ring of the Niblung, part 2
by Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 6
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
by Charles Annesley
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 2
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 8
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
by Charles Edward Pearce
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Giacomo Puccini
by Wakeling W. Dry
A Parody on Princess Ida
by D. (Davison) Dalziel
Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home
by Maurice Maeterlinck
A Parody on Patience
by D. (Davison) Dalziel
Il sogno di Scipione
by Pietro Metastasio