This etext was produced by Charles Franks, Robert Rowe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. A SECOND BOOK OF OPERAS by Henry Edward Krehbiel CONTENTS AND INDEX CHAPTER I BIBLICAL OPERAS England and the Lord Chamberlain’s censorship, et Gounod’s “Reine de Saba,” The transmigrations of “Un Ballo in Maschera,” How composers revamp their music, et
A Book of Operas by Henry Edward KrehbielTheir histories, their plots, and their music
The HTML version of this text produced by Bob Frone can be found at Plain text adaption by Andrew Sly. A BOOK OF OPERAS THEIR HISTORIES, THEIR PLOTS, AND THEIR MUSIC BY HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL TO LUGIEN WULSIN AN OLD FRIEND “Old friends are best.”–SELDEN. “I love everything that’s old,–old friends, old times, old manners,