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Filed under: Opera- The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by David Littlejohn (HTML at UC Press)
- Romanticism and Opera (2005), by Gillen D'Arcy Wood (HTML at Romantic Circles)
- Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)
- The Art-Work of the Future, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- L'évolution théâtrale ... (G. Van Oest et cie, 1922), by Lucien Solvay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Goethes singspiele "Erwin und Elmire" und "Claudine von Villa Bella" und die "opera buffa." (N. G. Elwert, 1912), by Elmar Bötcher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musiques d'hier et de demain. (E. Fasquelle, 1900), by Alfred Bruneau (page images at HathiTrust)
- Famous first representations, by H. Sutherland Edwards. (Chapman and Hall, 1886), by H. Sutherland Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
- Quarante ans de musique (Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1909), by Ernest Reyer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Interpreters and interpretations (A. A. Knopf, 1917), by Carl Van Vechten (page images at HathiTrust)
- The music of the modern world illustrated in the lives and works of the greatest modern musicians and in reproductions of famous paintings, etc. (D. Appleton, 1895), by Anton Seidl and Fanny Morris Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musiciens d'autrefois. (Hachette, 1908), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some musicians of former days (Holt, 1915), by Romain Rolland, Mary Blaiklock, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The prima donna, her history and surroundings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century (Remington and co., 1888), by H. Sutherland Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gluck und die Oper (O. Janke, 1863), by Adolf Bernhard Marx (page images at HathiTrust)
- Das moderne Musikdrama : für gebildete Laien (K. Prochaska, 1884), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Grundprobleme der Operngeschichte (Druck und Verlag von Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926), by Hermann Abert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Les nationalités musicales étudiées dans le drame lyrique: Gluck-Mozart-Weber-Bethoven-Meyerbeer-Rossini-Auber-Berlioz-F. David-Glinka.-Verdisme et wagnérisme.-L'école française militante. (Didier, 1872), by Jean Édouard Gustave Bertrand (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opera and its enjoyment (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1960), by Thomas Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Über die möglichkeiten der oper und über die partitur des "Doktor Faust" (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926), by Ferruccio Busoni (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England. (R. Bentley, 1851), by George Hogarth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Geschichte der oper (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1919), by Hermann Kretzschmar (page images at HathiTrust)
- A front seat at the opera (Allen, Towne & Heath, 1948), by George R. Marek (page images at HathiTrust)
- Les origines de l'opéra et le Ballet de la reine (1581) Étude sur les danses, la musique, les orchestres et la mise en scène au 16e siècle, avec un aperçu des progrès du drame lyrique depuis le 13e siècle jusqu'à Lully (Didier et cie, 1868), by Ludovic Celler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le origini del melodramma : testimonianze dei contemporanei (Torino : Fratelli Bocca, 1903, 1903), by Angelo Solerti (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die reform der oper durch Gluck und R. Wagner's kunstwerk der zukunft (F. Vieweg und sohn, 1884), by Karl Hermann Bitter (page images at HathiTrust)
- The world of opera (Nelson, 1956), by Robert Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
- Paris dilettante au commencement du siècle (Firmin-Didot, 1884), by Adolphe Jullien (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gluck und Wagner. : Ueber die entwicklung des musik-dramas (L. Finsterlin, 1870), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
- La opera italiana (Aguado, impresor, 1851), by Nicolas Pardo Pimentel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Les origines du mélodrame. (Kemink, 1927), by Eise Carel van Bellen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Zur Geschichte der Märchen-oper. (O. Hendel, 1896), by Leopold Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
- The basis of musical pleasure, together with a consideration of the opera problem and the expression of emotions in music (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Albert Gehring (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne oper. (A. Hofmann & co., 1880), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musikalische stationen. (Allgemeiner Verein für deutsche Literatur, 1885), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Über den einfluss der gegen das sechzehnte jahrhundert hin allgemeiner verbreiteten und wachsenden kunde des klassischen alterthums auf die ausbildung der tonkunst. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1850), by Carl von Winterfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
- Das opernbuch : eine geschichte der oper und ein musikalisch-dramafischer führer durch die repertoireopern (Hesse & Becker, 1923), by Julius Kapp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoire de la création et du développement du drame musical, particulièrement en Italie depuis l' "Euridice" de Peri jusqui'à l' "Orfeo" de Gluck (Maurice Lamertin, libraire-éditeur, Marcel Hayez, imprimeur, 1921), by Ludovic Blareau (page images at HathiTrust)
- Del teatro. (Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1773), by Francesco Milizia, Giovanni Battista Pasquali, and Marco Sebastiano Giampiccoli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Storia critica de teatri antichi e moderni divisa in dieci tomi (Presso V. Orsino, 1813), by Pietro Napoli Signorelli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Interpreters (A. A. Knopf, 1920), by Carl Van Vechten (page images at HathiTrust)
- L'esprit de la musique française (de Rameau à l'invasion wagnérienne). (Payot et cie, 1917), by Pierre Lasserre (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musiciens d'autrefois ... (Hachette, 1927), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Über schauspieler und sänger. (E.W. Fritzsch, 1872), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Schicksale und beschaffenheit des weltlichen gesanges vom frühen mittelalter bis zu der erfindung des dramatischen styles und den anfängen der oper. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1841), by R. G. Kiesewetter and Giulio Caccini (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera, past and present, an historical sketch (C. Scribner's sons, 1935), by William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die oper. (S. Fischer, 1919), by Oskar Bie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die oper. (S. Fischer, 1920), by Oskar Bie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die oper in ihrer kunst- und kulturhistorischen bedeutung dargestellt (A. Bonx & comp., 1885), by August Reissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera: a sketch of the development of opera. With full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory. (G. Routledge & sons, ltd. [etc.];, 1925), by R. A. Streatfeild, Edward J. Dent, and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 (H. Holt, 1908), by Henry Edward Krehbiel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Geschichte der Oper und des königlichen Opernhauses in Berlin (Berlin : Verlag von Duncker und Humblot, 1852., 1852), by L. Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die entstchung der komischen oper (H. Seemann nachfolger, 1902), by Nicola D'Arienzo and Ferdinand Lugscheider (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne oper. (A. Hofmann & co., 1877), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aus neuer und neuester Zeit : musikalische Kritiken und Schilderungen /von Eduard Hanslick. (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur, 1900), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Xin bian xi xue hui kao (Da dong shu ju, 1926), by Shanghai Da dong shu ju (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musikalisches und Litterarisches ... Kritiken und Schilderungen (Allgemeiner Verein für deutsche Litteratur, 1889), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fünf Jahre Musik, 1891-1895. (Allgemeiner verein für deutsche litteratur, 1896), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musikalisches Skizzenbuch. Neue Kritiken und Schilderungen. (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litterature, 1896), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Am Ende des Jahrhunderts, 1895-1899 (Allgemeiner Verein für deutsche Litteratur, 1899), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Il teatro alla moda, o sia Metoda sicuro, e facile per ben comporre, ed eseguire l'opere italiane in musica all' uso moderno, nel quale si danno avvertimenti utili, e necessarj a poeti, compositori di musica, musici dell'uno, e dell'altro sesso, impresarj, suonatory, ingegneri, e pittori di scene, parti buffe, sarti, paggi, comparse, suggeritori, coposti, protettori, e madri di virtuose, ed altre persone appartenenti al teatro. (Coi tipi del R. Stabilimento Ricordi, 1883), by Benedetto Marcello (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le drame musical. (Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1875), by Edouard Schuré (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wagneriana ... von dr. Arthur Seidl ... (Schuster & Loeffler, 1901), by Arthur Seidl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Treinta años de crítica musical; colección póstuma de los trabajos del Excmo. Señor D. José Esperanza y Sola ... (Est. tip. de la viuda é hijos de Tello, 1906), by José María Esperanza y Sola and José Ramón Mélida (page images at HathiTrust)
- Abriss der Entwickelungsgeschichte der Oper, mit literatischen hinweisen (Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei Actien-Gesellschaft, 1890), by Emil Krause (page images at HathiTrust)
- Das musikalische Drama (E. Schloemp, 1877), by Edouard Schuré and Hans von Wolzogen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aspects of modern opera; estimates and inquiries (J. Lane Company; [etc., etc.], 1909), by Lawrence Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some musicians of former days (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1915), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pensieri sulla musica (L. Beltrami, 1903), by Guido Alberto Fano (page images at HathiTrust)
- A critical history of opera ; giving an account of the rise and progress of the different schools, with a description of the master works in each. (L.C. Page, 1901), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera; a sketch of the development of opera. With full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory. (G. Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1907), by R. A. Streatfeild (page images at HathiTrust)
- Il teatro alla moda (R. Carabba, 1913), by Benedetto Marcello and Enrico Fondi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Genovefa-Legende. (A. Unflad, 1889), by Wilibald Nagel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Studien über die komische Oper in Frankreich im 18. Jahrhundert und ihre Beziehungen zu Molière (C.W. Offenhauer, 1912), by Max Achenwall (page images at HathiTrust)
- La musique au théâtre (Paris : Amyot, 1863., 1863), by A. -L. Malliot (page images at HathiTrust)
- The lyrical drama. Essays on subjects, composers, & executants of modern opera. (W.H. Allen, 1881), by H. Sutherland Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
- Acting in opera, its A-B-C, with descriptive examples, practical hints and numerous illustrations (G. Schirmer, 1915), by George Edward Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
- Katechismus der dramaturgie. (J. J. Weber, 1899), by Robert Prölss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le origini del melodramma : testimonian ze dei contemporanei (Fratelli Bocca, 1903), by Angelo Solerti (page images at HathiTrust)
- The rise and development of opera; embracing a comparative view of the art in Italy, Germany, France and England, showing the cause of the falling back of the English school in the modern period and the compensation which that falling back involved. (W. Reeves, 1911), by Joseph Goddard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Oper von Gluck bis Wagner. (H. Kerler, 1913), by Karl Maria Klob (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die entstehung der oper. Ein vortrag gehalten am 21. februar 1872 (C.H. Beck, 1873), by H. M. Schletterer (page images at HathiTrust)
- La renaissance du drame lyrique, 1600-1876 : essai de dramaturgie musicale (Fischbacher, 1895), by A. Regnard (page images at HathiTrust)
- La buona figliuola von Nicola Piccinni ... (Druck C. Reisser's Söhne, 1915), by Josefine Dagmar Popovici (page images at HathiTrust)
- Des artistes 2. série : Peintres et sculpteurs, 1897-1912; musiciens, 1884-1902 (E. Flammarion, 1924), by Octave Mirbeau (page images at HathiTrust)
- A history of opera : giving an account of the rise and progress of the different schools, with a description of the master works in each (L. C. Page & company, 1926), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some musicians of former days : Shakespeare: his music and song (Waverly Book Co., 1920), by Romain Rolland and A. H. Moncur-Sime (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opera and drama (Oper und Drama) (W. Reeves, 1913), by Richard Wagner and Edwin Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
- Souvenirs de théatre, d'art et de critique (G. Charpentier, 1883), by Théophile Gautier and Edwin Binney 3rd Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera: a sketch of the development of opera. With full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory (J.C. Nimmo;, 1902), by R. A. Streatfeild and J. A. Fuller-Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some musicians of former days [and] Shakespeare: his music and song (Waverley Book Co., 1917), by Romain Rolland and A. H. Moncur-Sime (page images at HathiTrust)
- V operi︠e︡ : sbornik stateĭ ob operakh i baletakh (Sobstvennostʹ izdateli︠a︡ L. I︠U︡rgensona, 1911), by Joel Engel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die primadonna. (P. Cassirer, 1920), by Adolf Weissmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- Carl Heinrich Graun als opernkomponist. (Druck von R. Boll, 1899), by Albert Mayer-Reinach (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die höhenzüge der musikalischen entwickelung. (B. Elischer nachfolger, 1888), by Richard Pohl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Souvenirs de théatre, d'art et de critique (Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1904), by Théophile Gautier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opere. (L. Manini, 1778), by Francesco Algarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gluck und Wagner. Ueber die entwicklung des Musikdramas. (L. Finsterlin, 1870), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oper und drama (J.J. Weber, 1852), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musical studies (A. & C. Black, 1880), by Francis Hueffer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Schicksale und Beschaffenheit des weltlichen Gesanges vom frühen Mittelalter bis zu der Erfindung des dramatischen Styles und den Anfängen der Oper; mit musikalischen Beilagen. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1841), by R. G. Kiesewetter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Über die Bestimmung der Oper (E.W. Fritzsch, 1871), by Richard Wagner and Packard Humanities Institute Music Collection at Harvard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Storia critica de' teatri antichi e moderni (Presso Vincenzo Orsino, 1787), by Pietro Napoli Signorelli (page images at HathiTrust)
- Supplément à la Correspondance littéraire (Chez Potey, Buisson, Delaunay, 1814), by Friedrich Melchior Grimm, Antoine-Alexandre Barbier, and Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
- Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique : adressée à un souverain d'Allemagne, depuis 1753 jusqu'en 1769 (Longchamps, libraire :, 1813), by Friedrich Melchior Grimm, King of the French Louis Philippe, Denis Diderot, and Biblioteca Mozartiana Eric Offenbacher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique : adressée à un souverain d'Allemagne, pendant une partie des années 1775-1776, et pendant les années 1782 à 1790 inclusivement (F. Buisson, libraire, 1813), by Friedrich Melchior Grimm, J. B. A. Suard, Jacques-Henri Meister, and Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
- La musica (F. Vallardi, 1903), by Alessandro Franchi-Verney and Alfredo Soffredini (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of the opera, from its origin in Italy to the present time. With anecdotes of the most celebrated composers and vocalists of Europe. (W. H. Allen & co., 1862), by H. Sutherland Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gluck and the opera; a study in musical history (B. Dobell, 1895), by Ernest Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne Oper (C. Reissner, 1894), by Ferdinand Pfohl (page images at HathiTrust)
- The operatic problem (J. Long, 1902), by William Johnson Galloway (page images at HathiTrust)
- De l'opéra en France. (Janet et Cotelle, 1820), by Castil-Blaze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le chant et les chanteurs (Heugel et Cie, 1874), by Auguste Laget (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opern-abende. Beiträge zur geschichte und kritik der oper ("Harmonie," verlagsgesellschaft für literatur und kunst, 1898), by Max Kalbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Belliniani e Wagneristi. (Tipografia di Roma, 1881), by Filippo Clementi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gedanken eines schauenden. (Bruckmann, 1903), by Friedrich von Hausegger and Siegmund von Hausegger (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le balcon de l'opéra. (E. Renduel, 1833), by Joseph d' Ortigue (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wegweiser für Opernfreunde. Erläuternde Besprechung der Wichtigsten auf dem Repertoire befindlichen Opern nebst Biographien der Componisten. (H. Matthes, 1857), by Ferdinand Gleich (page images at HathiTrust)
- Behind the scenes at the opera; intimate revelations of back-stage musical life and work (Stokes, 1925), by Mary Watkins Cushing (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne Oper ... (Allgemeiner Verein für deutsche Literatur, 1885), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Zukunftsmusik ; An einen französischen Freund (Fr. Villot) (Insel-Verlag, 1914), by Richard Wagner and Fr Villot (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of the opera, from Monteverde to Donizetti (W. H. Allen & Co., 1862), by H. Sutherland Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
- Prima donnas and other wild beasts (Argonaut Books, 1961), by Alan Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The International library of music for home and studio (The University Society, 1925), by Nicholas De Vore and Charles Frederick Dennée (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old scores and new readings: discussions on music & certain musicians (At the sign of the Unicorn [Unicorn press], 1901), by John F. Runciman (page images at HathiTrust)
- (La) reine de Chypre; opéra en cinq actes ... (Lévy, 1878), by Henri Saint-Georges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Études d'esthétique scientifique. La renaissance du drame lyrique, 1600-1876; essai de dramaturgie musicale (Fischbacher, 1895), by Albert Adrien Regnard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Les origines de l'opera et le Ballet de la reine (1581) : étude sur les danses, la musique, les orchestres et la mise en scène au XVIe siècle : avec un aperçu des progrès du drame lyrique depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'a Lully (Didier, 1868), by Ludovic Celler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opern-almanach für das Jahr 1815[, 1817] (P.G. Kummer, 1815), by August von Kotzebue (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of the musical drama. (R. Bentley, 1838), by George Hogarth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wesen und Geschichte der Oper : ein Handbuch für alle Freunde der Tonkunst (G. Wigand, 1838), by Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musiciens d'autrefois. (Hachette, 1924), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Das Wiener hof-operntheater. (C. Gerold & sohn, 1863), by Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aspects of modern opera : estimates and inquiries. (Dodd, Mead, 1924), by Lawrence Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
- El teatro (En la Impr. Real, 1789), by Francesco Milizia and D. J. F. O (page images at HathiTrust)
- Drama and opera (London ; New York ; Philadelphia : Historical Pubublishing Company, [1909]., 1909), by Albert Ellery Bergh, John Porter Lamberton, James P. Boyd, and Alfred Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
- L'évolution lyrique au théâtre dans les différents pays; tableau chronologique. (Fortin, 1908), by Henri de Curzon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Richard Wagners Musikdramen : Quellen, Entstehung, Aufbau : eine Einführung (L. Ehlermann, 1914), by Hans Lebede (page images at HathiTrust)
- Drama and opera : their history, literature and influence on civilization (Athenian Society, 1913), by John Porter Lamberton, James P. Boyd, Alfred Bates, and England) Athenian Society (London (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die komische Oper der Italiener, der Franzosen und der Deutschen. Ein fluüchtiger Blick in die Welt, wie sie war und ist. (I.O. Weigel, 1848), by Ferdinand Leopold Carl Biedenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
- Alceste : 1674, 1726, 1769, 1776, von Lulli, Händel und Gluck (Bote & Bock, 1851), by Carl von Winterfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
- The spirit of French music (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd.;, 1921), by Pierre Lasserre and Denis Philip Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Physiology of the opera (W.P. Hazard, 1852), by John Swaby (page images at HathiTrust)
- Zur Tonkunst. (I. Guttentag, 1864), by Ernst Otto Lindner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Trattato completo, formale e materiale del teatro (Forni, 1969), by Francesco Milizia (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aus Richard Wagners Geisteswelt : neue Wagneriana und Verwandtes (Schuster & Leoffler, 1908), by Hans von Wolzogen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ye pilgrims : an opera in two acts (historical) (Franklin press, 1879), by Edwy Wells Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sur l'opéra français; vérités dures mais utiles, prélude et cadence finale de l'Opéra-Italien de Paris, de 1548 à 1856 ... (Castil-Blaze, 1856), by Castil-Blaze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die romanische Oper der Gegenwart; kritische Aufsätze. (Rikola Verlag, 1922), by Julius Korngold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Richard Wagner and the style of the music drama. ([s.n.], 1897), by Wilbur Fiske Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera, past and present; an historical sketch (C. Scribner's sons, 1919), by William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opera & drama (Oper und drama). 1. Opera and the essence of music. 2. The stage-play and dramatical poetic art in the abstract. 3. Poetry an music in the drama of the future. (W. Reeves, 1913), by Richard Wagner and Edwin Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gesangsdramatische Wagnerkunst (nach Richard Wagners tradition). ([s.n., 1915), by Hans Bélart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Della musica melodrammatica (Tip. dell' industria, 1859), by Giuseppe de Simone (page images at HathiTrust)
- Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen : gesammelte Aufsätze. (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1909), by Wilhelm Kienzl (page images at HathiTrust)
- The London stage; a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces and interludes, accurately printed from acting copies, as performed at the Theatre royal and carefully collated and rev. (The proprietors, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera; a sketch of the development of opera. (G. Routledge & sons, limited, etc., 1907), by R. A. Streatfeild (page images at HathiTrust)
- A history of opera : giving an account of the rise and progress of the different schools, with a description of the master works in each (L.C. Page, 1909), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
- L'oeuvre dramatique de César Franck : Hulda et Ghiselle (Schott Frères, 1907), by Charles Van den Borren (page images at HathiTrust)
- Der Opernführer : Textbuch der Textbücher (Urania, 1894), by Wilhelm Lackowitz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Oper (S. Fischer, 1919), by Oskar Bie (page images at HathiTrust)
- National Endowment for the Arts presents (National Endowment for the Arts, 2005), by Boeing Company, National Endowment for the Arts, and Opera America (page images at HathiTrust)
- A comparison of the alto voice in early and modern opera (1915), by Marjorie Hutchins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The development of certain tendencies in modern opera (1917), by Kathryn Eleanor Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne Oper : Kritiken und Studien (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur, 1892), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Versuch einer Ästhetik des dramatischen Tonsatzes (H. Lewy, 1910), by Ignaz Franz von Mosel and Eugen Schmitz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Trattato completo, formale e materiale del teatro (Stamperia di Pietro q. Gio. Batt. Pasquali, 1794), by Francesco Milizia, Giovanni Battista Pasquali, and Pietro Pasquali (page images at HathiTrust)
- Il Solimano : tragedia (Nella Stamperia di Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620), by Prospero Bonarelli and Jacques Callot (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nouveau receuil [sic] de chansons et romances canadiennes et françaises, chansons comiques, opéras, etc., etc., etc. (J.B. Rolland, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Séance dramatique et musicale donnée en l'honneur de Monseigneur Bégin à l'occasion de la collation du pallium 22 janvier 1899. (s.n., 1899), by Séminaire de Québec (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne Oper, Kritiken und Studien (Allgemeiner Verein für deutsche Literatur, 1885), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- La musique et le drame : étude d'esthétique (Fischbacher, 1884), by Charles Beauquier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aus dem Tagebuche eines Musikers. Kritiken und Schilderungen (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur, 1892), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le drame musical. (Didier, 1886), by Edouard Schuré (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le théâtre à la mode au XVIIIe siècle (Il teatro alla moda) (Libraire Fischbacher (Société anonyme), 1890), by Benedetto Marcello and Ernest David (page images at HathiTrust)
- Katechismus der dramaturgie. (J. J. Weber, 1877), by Robert Prölss (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aus dem Opernleben der Gegenwart. Neue Kritiken und Studien (A. Hofmann & comp., 1884), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literarisches Jahrbuch : Jahres-Rundschau über die literarischen Erzeugnisse deutscher Zunge auf schöngeistigem, dramatischem und musikdramatischem Gebiet verbunden mit einem Lexikon der lebenden deutschen Schriftsteller und Schriftstellerinnen (Hoursch & Beohstedt, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera, past and present, an historical sketch (C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by William Foster Apthorp (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aus der Opernwelt; Prager Kritiken und Skizzen. (Callwey, 1907), by Richard Batka (page images at HathiTrust)
- Les nationalités musicales étudiées dans le drame lyrique. (Didier, 1872), by Gustave Bertrand (page images at HathiTrust)
- A critical history of opera; giving an account of the rise and progress of the different schools (Seeley, 1905), by Arthur Elson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Om de historiska förberedelserna till operadramat. (Marcus, 1872), by Carl Johan Fahlcrantz and Uppsala universitet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aus dem Opernleben der Gegenwart : neue Kritiken und Studien (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur, 1889), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Im Foyer; gesammelte Essays über das Opernrepertoire der Gegenwart (H. Seemann Nachfolger, 1901), by Richard Heuberger (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opern-Abende. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kritik der Oper ("Harmonie," Verlagsgesellschaft für Literatur und Kunst, 1898), by Max Kalbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Das moderne Musikdrama (Verl. der k. k. Hofbuchhandlung Prochaska, 1884), by Ludwig Nohl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old scores and new readings: discussions on musical subjects. (At the sign of the Unicorn [Unicorn press], 1899), by John F. Runciman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Från östan och vestan; strödda blad ur skizzboken. (Wilhelmssons boktryckeri, 1904), by Carl von Platen (page images at HathiTrust)
- La musique et le document humain, suivie d'une étude sur Rossini et Verdi (Ollendorf, 1887), by Henri Valori (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Lehre von der Wiedergeburt und das musikalische Drama, nebst dem Entwurf eines Mysteriums "Die Erlösung," (Lipsius & Tischer, 1895), by Felix Weingartner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera; a sketch of the development of opera. With full descriptions of every work in the modern repertory (J. C. Nimmo;, 1897), by R. A. Streatfeild (page images at HathiTrust)
- Intermallerías : escenas íntimas de la vida del teatro (R. Velasco, 1907), by Vincente Sanchis y Guillem (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ueber dramatische Musik und das Kunstwerk der Zukunst. Ein Beitrag zur Aesthetik der Musik (C. Habel, 1883), by Max Alexander Friedrich Schasler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dancing and opera (Dainihon Bunmei Kyōkai Jimusho, 1913), by Dainihon Bunmei Kyōkai (page images at HathiTrust)
- Li yuan ji cheng (Shi zhu you zhai, 1880), by Hecheng Wang and Shizhong Li (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fervaal devant la presse. (A. Durand, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Opera news. (Wanamaker, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Libro contra Wagner, escrito por un wagneriano. Los errores de Wagner. (Talleres gráficos argentinos de L.J. Rosso y cía., 1919), by Mariano G. Bosch (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opera synopses; a guide to the plots and characters of the standard operas. (G.G. Harrap & Co., 1913), by Joseph Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Saggio sopra l'opera in musica (1763) (F.A.R.A.P., 1975), by Francesco Algarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoire du drame musical (Perrin et cie, 1916), by Edouard Schuré (page images at HathiTrust)
- De l'opéra en France (Chez l'auteur, 1826), by Castil-Blaze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ueber dramatische Musik und das Kunstwerk der Zukunft; ein Beitrag zur Aesthetik der Musik. 2. Abth.: Die moderne Oper und Richard Wagner's Musikdrama. (C. Habel, 1883), by Max Schasler (page images at HathiTrust)
- A book of dates, operatic, dramatic, and musical. Compiled for the Strollers. (Browne and Nolan, 1878), by Hercules Henry Graves MacDonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Russian opera (H. Jenkins, 1914), by Rosa Newmarch (page images at HathiTrust)
- Gounod's operas in London (The Press printers, ltd., 1918), by Richard Northcott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Music-drama of the future: Uther and Igraine, choral drama (W. Reeves, 1911), by Rutland Boughton and Reginald R. Buckley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Croquis d'artistes : avec 16 portraits. (Fischbacher, 1898), by Henri de Curzon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne Oper : Kritiken und Studien (Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur, 1900), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opera & drama (Oper und drama) (W. Reeves, 1913), by Richard Wagner and Edwin Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
- A vuela pluma : revistas teatrales (1903) (El Comercio, 1905), by Celiano Monge (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ascania; zehn jahre in Anhalt. Gesammelte aufsätze aus erlebnissen, anregungen und studien, von dr. Arthur Seidl. (G. Bosse, 1913), by Arthur Seidl (page images at HathiTrust)
- Über Robert Schumann's Faustmusik (C.F. Kahnt, 1850), by Peter Lohmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrazione delle solenni reali feste : fatte celebrare in Napoli da Sua Maestà il Re delle Due Sicilie Carlo Infante di Spagna, Duca di Parma, Piacenza &c. & c per la nascita del suo primogenito Filippo Real Principe delle Due Sicilie. ([publisher not identified], 1749), by Giuseppe Vasi, Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, Nicolas-Henri Jardin, Vincenzo dal Rè, Francesco Polanzani, Angelo Guiducci, and Carlo Bartolomeo Gregori (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die moderne Oper : Kritiken und Studien (Hofmann, 1877), by Eduard Hanslick (page images at HathiTrust)
- Goethes singspiele "Erwin und Elmire" und "Claudine von Villa Bella" und die "opera buffa." (N.G. Elwert, 1912), by Elmar Bötcher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Des représentations en musique anciennes et modernes (Minkoff Reprint, 1972), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vom musikalischen Drama (Süddeutsche Monatshefte, 1915), by Hans Pfitzner (page images at HathiTrust)
- La rinascita del dramma; saggio sul teatro di musica ... (Ausonia, 1922), by S. A. Luciani (page images at HathiTrust)
- Der Operntypus Johann Adolf Hasses und seine textlichen grundlagen (F. Kistner & C. F. W. Siegel, 1925), by Rudolf Gerber (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die komische Oper; eine historisch-ästhetische Studie (C. Grüninger (Klett & Hartmann), 1906), by Edgar Istel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opern-Uebersetzungen. (K. Fliegl, 1911), by Gustav Brecher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Teatro alla moda (Aldaviva Licante, 1735), by Benedetto Marcello (page images at HathiTrust)
- Des representations en musique anciennes et modernes. (Chez R. Guignard, 1681), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Der Ariadne-Stoff in der Entwicklungs-geschichte der deutschen Oper. Eine musik-kritische Betrachtung nebst einer Zusammenstellung von sämtlichen musikalischen Ariadne-Werken der Welt. (J.H. Meyer, 1919), by Paul Nicolai (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Opera, history and guide : the origin and development of opera, stories of the operas, biographies of opera composers and singers, women in music (The University Society, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Notes d'un amateur de musique (Les Cahiers de Paris, 1926), by Gérard de Nerval and André Cœuroy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musiciens d'autrefois (Hachette, 1914), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Caught and caged; operetta in one act. (Chappell, in the 19th century), by Emanuele Biletta and J. Palgrave Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
- L'Évolution théâtrale (Librairie nationale d'art et d'histoire, 1922), by Lucien Solvay (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ensayo sobre la opera en musica. Escrito en lengua italiana por el Conde Francisco Algaroti ... Traducido al castellano, para instruccion de los que quieran asistir al nuevo teatro italiano, que se ha establecido en esta corte. (en la Imprenta de Miguel Escribano, 1787), by Francesco Algarotti (page images at HathiTrust)
- Teatri musicali di Venezia nel settecento (Visentini, 1892), by Taddeo Wiel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Por nuestra música. Algunas observaciones sobre la magna cuestión de una escuela lírico nacional, motivadas por la trilogia (tres cuadros y un prólogo) ([Impr. de Henrich y ca], 1892), by Felipe Pedrell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Continuazione della serie cronologica delle rappresentazioni drammatico-pantomimiche poste sulle scene dei principali teatri di Milano, o sia, Spettacoli rappresentati ... (G. Silvestri, 1776), by active 1800 G. C. (Giuseppe Chiappori) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die deutsche Spieloper : eine Studie (W. Piepenschneider, 1924), by Kurt Lüthge (page images at HathiTrust)
- Musiciens d'autrefois ... (Hachette et cie, 1912), by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Theater Wiens. (Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, 1899), by Alexander von Weilen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Promenades lyriques (Nouvelle Librarie Nationale, 1924), by Camille Bellaigue (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sage und märchen im musikdrama Eine ästhetische untersuchung an der sagen- und märchenoper des XIX. jahrhunderts. (J. Hoffmann's wwe., 1916), by Josef G. Daninger (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le prime rappresentazioni celebri: Bellini, Bizet, Boito, Cherubini, Donizetti, Gounod, Mascagni, Mercadante, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Pacini, Paisiello, Ponchielli, Rossini, Spontini, Verdi, Wagner, ecc. (Fratelli Treves, 1910), by Gino Monaldi (page images at HathiTrust)
- The opera : comprising the romantic legends, stories and plots of famous operas; and biographies of the composers (The Athenian Society, 1909), by Albert Ellery Bergh, Giuseppe Verdi, Alfred Bates, and England) Athenian Society (London (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opera chatter (Novello, 1921), by Richard Northcott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oper und Drama. (G. Braun, 1923), by Max Steidel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Zur Entwicklung der Oper in der Gegenwart ; gesammelte Aufsätze und Kritiken. (Führer-Verlag, 1918), by Adolf Armin Kochmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Development of Certain Tendencies in Modern Opera: Thesis for the degree of Bachelor of Music, by Kathryn Eleanor Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
- History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time: With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe, by H. Sutherland Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
- Musiciens d'autrefois (in French), by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg ebook)
- Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and Inquiries, by Lawrence Gilman (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Operatic Problem, by William Johnson Galloway (Gutenberg ebook)
- Interpreters, by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg ebook)
- Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande: A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score, by Lawrence Gilman (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory., by R. A. Streatfeild, contrib. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland (Gutenberg ebook)
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