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id: 20264
author: Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald)
title: Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera
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sentence: 409
flesch: 76
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  Sleep, she mutters, I must sleep--sleep! and falls down in one of those long trances which apparently last for months, or years, and form the transition periods between her mood of Grail service and the Klingsor slavery into which she must next relapse in spite of herself. Many knights have already succumbed to the insidious arts of Klingsor; but the tragical turning-point of the _Parsifal_ is that Amfortas, himself the son of Titurel, the official guardian of the Grail, in making war upon the magician, took with him the sacred spear, and _lost_ it to Klingsor.


id: 16250
author: Wagner, Richard
title: Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts
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words: 10023
sentence: 1001
flesch: 95
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summary:
  (_He sets upon_ MARK _and his followers_.) MARK. [KURVENAL, _driven away by_ TRISTAN'S _chidings, descends into the cabin_.


id: 38597
title: Martha; or, The Fair at Richmond
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words: 12179
sentence: 1536
flesch: 100
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summary:
  LADY H. _sinks weeping into the arms of_ NANCY.) PLUN. LIONEL _approach the three and stand at a short distance, gazing at_ LADY H. _and_ NANCY.) PLUN. Jove!


id: 13843
author: Illica, Luigi
title: Libretto: La Bohème
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words: 13697
sentence: 1850
flesch: 96
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summary:
  (RUDOLPH _makes_ MIMI _sit down. Momus, Momus, Momus! (MIMI _goes nearer the window, so that the moon's rays fall on her while_ RUDOLPH _


id: 11633
author: Wagner, Richard
title: Parsifal A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation
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words: 16068
sentence: 946
flesch: 88
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  And still impetuous and unreasoning, Fighting the facts of life in rebel mood (A child of sudden temper, guileless heart), He seized her, struggling with a furious might To make her unsay what her lips had told. Long did our King Amfortas kneel before The sanctuary, praying in his pain And seeking for a word of hope from God.


id: 43289
author: Humperdinck, Engelbert
title: Hänsel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts
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words: 15225
sentence: 1471
flesch: 92
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summary:
  (_Hänsel streckt die Zunge heraus._) (_Schnalzend._) Tirelireli! HÄNSEL (_der während des Liedes erwacht ist, reibt sich die Augen, gähnt, dehnt sich und stimmt, gleichfalls aufspringend, munter in Gretels Weise ein_).


id: 35699
author: O'Keeffe, John
title: Fontainbleau; a comic opera. In three acts
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words: 18158
sentence: 2736
flesch: 98
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summary:
  Sir J. B._ _Sir J. B._ Pay you--what the devil, do you think I'll give you fifty pounds, because one horse thrusts his nose out before another?


id: 38654
author: Bender, Millicent Schwab
title: Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German
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words: 28152
sentence: 2216
flesch: 93
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summary:
  The walls were of sweetest sugar candy, glistening like diamonds in the sun; the roof was of chocolate cake, all soft and creamy; and the gables were ornamented with raisins, like little eyes. He had caught a glimpse of a golden head and a pair of blue eyes at the window; and the sight of one so fair in such a hut told him that there was work for him to do here.


id: 48214
author: Wagner, Richard
title: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie The Ring of the Niblung, part 1
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words: 25829
sentence: 2866
flesch: 96
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summary:
  For love art thou pining? Approach and show me Thy face and thy form. Was Wälse thy father, And art thou a Wälsung?-- Stuck was for thee His sword in the stem?-- Then let my love call thee What it has found thee; Siegmund Shall be thy name.


id: 46119
author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
title: The Valkyries
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words: 32210
sentence: 1452
flesch: 88
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summary:
  It is to Hunding's house thou hast come, he said, and under the roof of Hunding thou hast rested. Thou knewest where the sword was; in the presence of Sieglinde thou didst place it there.


id: 49507
author: Wagner, Richard
title: Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods The Ring of the Niblung, part 2
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words: 30916
sentence: 3386
flesch: 97
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summary:
  Brünnhilde throws herself into Siegfried's arms The three Norns The Norns vanish Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde in search of adventure Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune, and gazes at her with sudden passion Brünnhilde kisses the ring that Siegfried has left with her The ravens of Wotan The ring upon thy hand-- ... ah, be implored! [Illustration: Siegfried hands the drinking-horn back to Gutrune, and gazes at her with sudden passion--See p. 119] GUNTHER May Brünnhilde's wooer be.


id: 16840
author: Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
title: Stories of the Wagner Opera
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words: 37735
sentence: 1284
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Simultaneously almost with Brangeane's cry, Kurvenal rushes upon the scene with drawn sword, imploring his master to fly; but ere this advice can be followed King Mark and the traitor Melot appear, closely followed by all the royal hunting party. While the lovers, clasped in each other's arms, unite in a duet of passionate love, the vessel is made fast to the shore, where the royal bridegroom is waiting, and it is only when Brangeane throws the royal mantle over Ysolde's shoulders, and when Kurvenal bids them step ashore, that the lovers suddenly realise that their brief dream of love is over.


id: 6443
author: Frost, William Henry
title: The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas
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words: 56343
sentence: 2252
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Then he tried to entice good knights to come to his castle, and if any knight came, if any stayed in the enchanted halls to eat or drink or dance or play, that knight was lost forever. For all these many years, while other men were living happy lives and growing old, and their children and their grand-children were growing old too, the angry winds and waves have driven him about and have given him no rest; now this woman could save him, but his love tells him that he ought to save her instead.


id: 42918
author: Upton, George P. (George Putnam)
title: The Standard Light Operas, Their Plots and Their Music
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words: 48169
sentence: 2596
flesch: 74
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summary:
  The principal numbers in the first act are Dame Carruthers' song with chorus, When our Gallant Norman Foes; Fairfax's sentimental song, Is Life a Boon; the irresistibly funny chorus, both in music and words, Here's a Man of Jollity, jibe, joke, jollify; give us of your Quality, come, Fool, follify; the extremely melodramatic duet for Elsie and Point, I have a Song to sing; Point's recitative and song, I've Jest and Joke; Elsie's pretty ballad, 'Tis done! The first scene of the second act is a mine of charming songs, including Lazarillo's, Alas!


id: 38153
author: Wagnalls, Mabel
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words: 57947
sentence: 3131
flesch: 76
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title:
  Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba

summary:
  Madame Butterfly MADAME BUTTERFLY Beauty of plot and great music are to an opera what fair features and a noble soul are to woman. We are now prepared for the legendary character of the opera; such music could not represent things earthly.


id: 3770
author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward
title: A Second Book of Operas
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words: 57314
sentence: 2206
flesch: 64
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summary:
  et seq.--The hiring of wives in Japan, Experiences of Pierre Loti, Geishas and mousmes, A changed denouement, Messager's opera, Madame Chrysantheme, The end of Loti's romance, Japanese melodies in the score, Puccini's method and Wagner's, The Star-Spangled Banner, A tune from The Mikado, Some of the themes of Puccini and William Furst, CHAPTER XIII DER ROSENKAVALIER The opera's predecessors, Guntram, Feuersnot, Salome, Oscar Wilde makes a mistaken appeal to France, His necrophilism welcomed by Richard Strauss and Berlin, Conried's efforts to produce Salome at the Metropolitan Opera Blouse suppressed, Hammerstein produces the work, Elektra, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal and Beaumarchais, Strauss and Mozart, Mozart's themes and Strauss's waltzes, Dancing in Vienna at the time of Maria Theresa, First performance of the opera at New York, Der Rosenkavalier and Le Nozze di Figaro, Criticism of the play and its music, et seq.--Use of a melodic phrase from Die Zauberflote, The language of the libretto, The music, Cast of the first American performance, (footnote) CHAPTER XIV KONIGSKINDER Story of the play, et seq.--First production of Hummerdinck's opera and cast, Earlier performance of the work as a melodrama, Author and composer, Opera and melodrama in Germany, Wagnerian symbolism and music, Die Meistersinger recalled, Hero and Leander, Humperdinck's music, CHAPTER XV BORIS GODOUNOFF First performance of Moussorgsky's opera in New York, Participation of the chorus in the tragedy, Imported French enthusiasm, Vocal melody, textual accents and rhythms, Slavicism expressed in an Italian translation, Moussorgsky and Debussy, Political reasons for French enthusiasm, Rimsky-Korsakoff's revision of the score, Russian operas in America, Nero, Pique Dame, Eugene Onegin, Verstoffeky's Askold's Tomb, The nationalism of Boris Godounoff, The Kolydda song Slava and Beethoven, Lack of the feminine element in the drama, The opera's lack of coherency, Cast of the first American performance, CHAPTER XVI MADAME SANS-GENE AND OTHER OPERAS BY GIORDANO First performance of Madame Sans-Gene, A singing Napoleon, Royalties in opera, Henry the Fowler, King Mark, Verdi's Pharaoh, Herod, Boris Godounoff, Macbeth, Gustavus and some mythical kings and dukes, et seq.--Mattheson's Boris, Peter the Great, Sardou's play and Giordano's opera, Verdi on an operatic Bonaparte, Sardou's characters, Andrea Chenier, French Rhythms, Fedora, Siberia, The historic Chenier, Russian local color, Schone Minka, Slava, Ay ouchnem, French revolutionary airs, La Marseillaise, La Carmagnole, Ca ira, CHAPTER XVII TWO OPERAS BY WOLF-FERRARI The stories of Jephtha and his daughter, Hezekiah, Belshazzar, Abraham and Isaac, Jonah, Job, the Judgment of Solomon, and the Last Judgment became the staple of opera composers in Italy and Germany for more than a century.


id: 5724
author: Krehbiel, Henry Edward
title: A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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words: 84741
sentence: 3226
flesch: 65
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summary:
  A musical pantomime, Harlequin Faustus, was performed in London as early as 1715, and there were Faust operas long before even the first part of Goethe's poem was printed, which was a hundred and one years ago. He worked with redoubled zeal in behalf of German opera at Prague, and when he was called to be Court Music Director in Dresden in 1817, he entered upon his duties as if consecrated to a holy task.


id: 14968
author: Upton, George P. (George Putnam)
title: The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers (12th edition)
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words: 88251
sentence: 3953
flesch: 70
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summary:
  The remaining numbers are Elvira's appeal to her lover (Vien, diletto), the magnificent duet for basses (Suoni la tromba), known as the Liberty Duet, which in sonorousness, majesty, and dramatic intensity hardly has an equal in the whole range of Italian opera; a tender and plaintive romanza for tenor (A una fonte aflitto e solo); a passionate duet for Arthur and Elvira (Star teco ognor); and an adagio, sung by Arthur in the finale (Ella è tremante). As she kisses his hand he wakes, and in the duet which follows tells her the story of his early life in an exquisite romanza (Di pescatore ignobile), which is one of the most familiar numbers in Italian opera.


id: 28711
author: Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
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words: 119071
sentence: 8130
flesch: 89
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title:
  Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces

summary:
  In the early day peasants arrived with their grain sacks, called for entrance, and the doors were opened to them; other men with grain to be milled came and went, and the scene presented a lively appearance. What man has a friend, whose own greatness makes other men feel small? he asked still more sadly.


id: 27265
author: Brownell, Gertrude Hall
title: The Wagnerian Romances
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words: 129443
sentence: 7700
flesch: 82
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summary:
  Radiant life!--the last good words ever exchanged between them!--they tear apart, without sorrow or foreboding. He comes a little more awake to protest that death cannot destroy such love as theirs, that love is stronger than death, is eternally living, that all that could die in death would be the disturbing things which now prevent him from being always with her, whereas were they to die,--inseparable,--to all eternity one,--nevermore to awake,--nevermore to know fear,--nameless, close enfolded in love,--belonging singly to themselves,--they should live wholly for love!...


id: 808
author: Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck)
title: The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan
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words: 168933
sentence: 16332
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Poor little man! BOTH. When you're summoned, start Like a frightened roe— Flutter, little heart, Colour, come and go!


id: 40540
author: Kobbé, Gustav
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flesch: 80
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title:
  The Complete Opera Book The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation

summary:
  _Wotan_ joins _Loge_ in his mockery of _Alberich_. But even _Fricka's_ caresses, as she asks _Wotan_ to lead her into Walhalla, cannot divert the god's mind from dark thoughts, and the Curse Motive accompanies his gloomy reflections--for the ring has passed through his hands.


# ent

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type: ORG
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  penche et lui prend la clef pendue à son cou et s'élance dans l'appartment de giulietta qui parait dans


