German Opera Libretti / Edition 1

by James Steakley

Overview

Foreword by Jost Hermand

The libretti of the greatest German operas: Mozart's The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Fidelio, Wagner's Parsifal, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and Schoenberg's Moses and Aron.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826407399
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/01/1995
Series:	German Library , #52
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword: Jost Hermand
 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
THE MAGIC FLUTE
Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
Translated by Michael Geliot (lyrics) and Anthony Besch (dialogue); adapted by the editor
 
Ludwig van Beethoven
FIDELIO
Libretto from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly by Joseph Sonnleithner, Stephanvon Breuning, and Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Translated by Paul Csonka and Ariane Theslöf (lyrics) and James Steakley (dialogue)
 
Richard Wagner
PARSIFAL
Translated by Andrew Porter
 
Richard Strauss
THE ROSE CAVALIER
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Translated by Alfred Kalisch; adapted by the editor
 
Arnold Schönberg
MOSES AND ARON
Translated by Allen Forte with revisions by Paul Hamburger; adapted by the editor