German Opera Libretti
- Author: Steakley, James
German Opera Libretti
- Author: Steakley, James
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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.
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
