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