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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
The Robbers
by Friedrich Schiller
Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman
by Ben Jonson
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
Le Roi s'amuse
by Victor Hugo
War and Peace
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Die Leiden des jungen Werther — Band 2
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
Scènes de la vie de Bohème
by Henri Murger
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
by George Ainslie Hight
Oberon
by Christoph Martin Wieland
La dame aux camélias
by Alexandre Dumas
Hernani
by Victor Hugo
Don Álvaro, o, La fuerza del Sino
by duque de Angel de Saavedra Rivas
Jerusalem Delivered
by Torquato Tasso
Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score
by Lawrence Gilman
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
The Bride of Lammermoor
by Walter Scott
Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians
by John F. Runciman
Boris Godunov: a drama in verse
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
by H. R. (Hugh Reginald) Haweis
Gullible's Travels, Etc.
by Ring Lardner
Thaïs
by Anatole France
A House of Pomegranates
by Oscar Wilde
Wilhelm Tell
by Friedrich Schiller
Opera Stories from Wagner
by Florence Akin
Riders to the Sea
by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
by Samuel Richardson
Die Leiden des jungen Werther — Band 1
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thais
by Anatole France
The Queen Of Spades
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
The Borough
by George Crabbe
Le Mariage de Loti
by Pierre Loti
The Castle of Andalusia: A Comic Opera, in Three Acts
by John O'Keeffe
La Esmeralda
by Victor Hugo
Amadis of Gaul, an opera As it is perform'd at the King's Theatre in the Hay-market
by Nicola Francesco Haym
The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay
Alcestis
by Euripides
El trovador
by Antonio García Gutiérrez
La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro
by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 5
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
L'Endimione
by Pietro Metastasio
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
by Henri Murger
A Second Book of Operas
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Carmen
by Prosper Mérimée
The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers (12th edition)
by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Mithridate
by Jean Racine
Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts
by Charles Gounod, Jules Barbier, Michel Carré
Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts
by Richard Wagner
La Tosca: Drame en cinq actes
by Victorien Sardou
Woyzeck
by Georg Büchner
New version of Les contes d'Hoffmann (The tales of Hoffman)
by Jacques Offenbach
Fontainbleau; a comic opera. In three acts
by John O'Keeffe
Kabale und Liebe: Ein bürgerliches Trauerspiel
by Friedrich Schiller
A Parody on Iolanthe
by D. (Davison) Dalziel
The Duenna: A Comic Opera
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
by Baron George Gordon Byron
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
The Valkyries
by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson, Richard Wagner
Libretto: La Bohème
by Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts
by Engelbert Humperdinck, Adelheid Wette
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
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie The Ring of the Niblung, part 1
by Richard Wagner
The Girl of the Golden West
by David Belasco
Der Fliegende Hollaender The Flying Dutchman
by Richard Wagner
Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces
by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
Mary Stuart: A Tragedy
by Friedrich Schiller
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 1
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Richard Wagner, Composer of Operas
by John F. Runciman
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732), Author of "The Beggar's Opera"
by Lewis Melville
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
Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and Inquiries
by Lawrence Gilman
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 6
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Song of the Lark
by Willa Cather
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 4
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
by W. J. (William James) Henderson
Manon Lescaut
by abbé Prévost
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
by Charles Annesley
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Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse
by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides
by Euripides
The Lady of the Lake
by Walter Scott
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 2
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 8
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
by Charles Edward Pearce
Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods The Ring of the Niblung, part 2
by Richard Wagner
Giacomo Puccini
by Wakeling W. Dry
Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home
by Maurice Maeterlinck
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 3
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Parody on Princess Ida
by D. (Davison) Dalziel
A Parody on Patience
by D. (Davison) Dalziel