Operatic and Other Musical Composers Source: Biographical Records The following list of composers of opera, oratorio and other music, with the year of birth and death is compiled in large part from "Opera Plots," published in 1927 by the New York Public Library. Adam, Adolphe C (1803-1856) Alary, Giulio (1814-1891) Dorn, Heinrich, L. E. (1804-1892) Goldbeck, Robert (1839-1908) Nessler, Victor E. (1841-1890) Ponchielli, Amilcare (1834-1886) Thomas, Arthur G. (1851-1892) Thalberg, S. (1812-1871) Thomas, Chas. L. A. (1811-1896) Chief Operas of Noted Composers Source: Biographical Records Abduction from the Harem (Mozart); Africaine, L' (Meyerbeer); Aida (Verdi); Ali-Baba (Cherubini); Amico Fritz, L (Mascagni); Ascanio (Saint Saens); Andrea Chenier (Giordano); Anna Bolena (Donizetti). Arlane et Barbe-Bleue (Massenet); Arlesienne, L' (Bizet); Armida (Rossini); Armide (Gluck); Aschenbrodel (Wolf-Ferrari); Attila (Verdi). Aveugles (Offenbach); Bacchus (Massenet): Bagatelle (Offenbach); Ballo in Maschera, Un (Verdi). Barbares, Les (Saint Saens); Barbe-Bleue (Offenbach); Barber of Seville (Rossini); Baron des Tziganes, Le (J. Strauss); Bartered Bride (Smetana); Bat, The (Fledermaus) (J. Strauss); Battaglia di Legnano, La (Verdi). Beatrice di Tenda (Bellini); Beggar Student (Millocker); Beggars Opera (Gay and Pepusch): Belisario (Donizetti); Billee Taylor (Solomon); Black Hussar (Millocker); Boccaccio (Suppe): Boheme, La (Leoncavallo; Puccini); Bohemian Girl (Balfe). Boris Godounov (Moussorgsky) Bride of Lammermoor (Donizetti); Bride of the Czar (RimskyKorsakoff); Cagliostro (J. Strauss); Caliph of Bagdad (Boieldieu); Campanello, Il (Donizetti): Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven, Stanford); Carmen (Bizet). Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni); Cesare Borgia (Leoncavallo); Charmeuse, La (Tschaikowsky); Cherubin (Massenet); Chimes of Normandy (Planquette); Cld, Le (Massenet); Cigale, La (Audran); Cinderella (Massenet). Cinq-Mars (Gounod); Clara di Pert (Verdi); Cleopatra's Night (Hadley); Cleopatra (Massenet): Columbe, La (Gounod). Count of Luxembourg (Lehar); Compte Ory, Le (Rossini); Contes di'Hoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann) (Offenbach); Coppelia (Delibes); Coq D'or, Le (Golden Cockerel) (Rimsky-Korsakoff); Corsair, The (Verdi); Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart); Cox and Box (Sullivan); Creole, La (Offenbach); Crepusculum (Leoncavallo). Cristoforo Colombo (Franchetti) Cyrano de Bergerac (Damrosch; Herbert); Czar and Carpenter (Lortzing); Dame Blanche (Boieldieu): Damnation of Faust (Berlioz); Danse Macabre (Saint Saens); Daoma (Cadman); Daughter of the Forest (Nevin). Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti); Diluvio universale (Donizetti); Dinorah (Meyerbeer); Doctor Ox (Offenbach); Doctor Faustus (Busoni); Dollarprinzessin, Die (Fall). Domino Noir, Le (Auber); Don Carlos (Verdi); Don Cesar de Bazan (Massanet); Don Giovanni (Mozart); Don Juan (Gluck); Don Pasquale (Donizetti); Don Proconio (Bizet); Don Quixote (De Koven, Massenet, Offenbach); Don Sebastiano (Donizetti). Donna Juanita (Suppe); Donna del Lago (Rossini); Duke of Alba (Donizetti); Duchess of Guise (Flotow); Due Foscari, I (Verdi); Edgar (Puccini); Edipo Re (Leoncavallo); Edouardo e Cristina (Rossini); Egmont (Beethoven). El Capitan (Sousa); Elektra (R. Strauss); Elijah (Mendelssohn); Elisa (Cherubini); Elizabeth, Queen (Rossini); Elisir d'Amore, L (Donizetti); Elixir of Love (Sullivan); Enfant Prodigue, L' (Auber; Debussy); Erinnyes, Les (Massenet); Ermine (Jakobowski). watha (Coleridge-Taylor); H. M. S. Pinafore (Sullivan); Huguenots, The (Meyerbeer); Iolanthe (Sullivan; Tschaikowsky); Irene (Gounod); Iris (Mascagni); Isabeau (Mascagni); Ivan the Terrible (Rimsky-Korsakoff); Ivanhoe (Sullivan); Jean de Nievelle (Delibes); Jerusalem (Verdi). Jewels of the Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari); Jewess, The (La Juive) (Halevy); Joseph in Egypt (Mehul); Judith (Lefebvre); Juggler of Notre Dame (Massenet); King Arthur (Albeniz; Boughton: Purcell); King of Lahore (Massenet); King's Henchman (Taylor); Kiss, The (Smetana); Koenig Manfred (Reinecke): Koenigskinder. Die (Humperdinck); Kostchei the Deathless (RimskyKorsakoff); Kreuzritter in Aegypten, Der (Meyerbeer); Lakme (Delibes); Lalla Rookh (David; Spontini; Rubenstein). Leila (Bizet); Liebesmahl der Apostel (Wagner); Liebesverbot, Das (Wagner); Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti): Lionello (Verdi); Lodoiska (Cherubini; Kreutzer). Lodoletta (Mascagni); Lohengrin (Wagner); Lombardi, I (Verdi); Louise (Charpentier): Love of Three Kings (Montemezzi); Lucia de Lammermoor (Donizetti); Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti). Luisa Miller (Verdi); Lustige Witwe (Merry Widow) (Lehar): Macbeth (Taulbert; Verdi); Mme. l'Archiduc (Offenbach); Madame Butterfly (Puccini); Mme. Chrysantheme (Messager); Mme. Favart (Offenbach); Mme. Sans-Gene (Giordano); Mme. Sherry (Felix). Mlle. Fifi (Cul); Mage, Le (Massenet); Magic Flute (Mozart); Magicienne, La (Halevy); Maia (Leoncavallo); Maid Marian (De Koven); Maid of Milan (Payne); Maid of Orleans (Tschaikowsky); Maid of Pskof (Rimsky-Korsakoff); Mala Vita (Giordano). Malbruck (Leoncavallo); Maledizione (Verdi); Malinche (Fanciulli); Mameli (Leoncavallo); M'lle Nitouche (Herve); Manon (Massenet); Manon Lescaut (Auber: Puccini); Manru (Paderewski); Maometto Secondo (Rossini); Mari a la Port, Un (Offenbach). Maria Padilla (Donizetti); Maria Sturda (Donizetti); Marriage of Figaro (Mozart); Marie-Magdalene (Massenet); Martha (Flotow); Martiri, I (Donizetti). Masaniello (Auber; Carafa); Mascotte, La (Audran); Masked Ball (Verdi); Masnadieri, I (Verdi); Mastersingers of Nuremberg (Wagner); Maltrosen, Die (Flotow); Medea (Cherubini); Medici, I (Leoncavallo); Medusa (Tschaikowsky); Mefistofele (Boito). Merchant of Venice (Beecham; Pinsuti); Merry War (J. Strauss); Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai); Mignon (Thomas); Mikado, The (Sullivan); Mirelle (Mirella) (Gounod); Miser Knight, The (Rachmaninoff). Miss Helyett (Audran); Modell, Das (Suppe); Modest Suzanne (Gilbert; Winterfeld); Mohicans, Les (Adam); Monna Vanna (Fevrier); Monsieur Beaucaire (Messager); Moses in Egypt (Rossini); Moses (Rubenstein). Muletier, Le (Herold); Nabab, Le (Halevy); Nabucco (Verdi); Night in Venice (J. Strauss); Namico San (Franchetti); Nanon (Genee); Narcissa (Moore); Natoma (Herbert); Navarraise, La (Massenet); Nero (Handel-Rubenstein). Noces d'Olivette, Les (Audran); Noe (Halevy and Ermani (Verdi); Esclarmonde (Massenet); Etoile Bizet); Norma (Bellini); Night in May, A (Rimskydu Nord, L (Meyerbeer); Eugen Onegin (Tschai-Korsakoff); Oberon (Weber); Olympic (Spontini); kowsky) Euryanthe (Weber); Eva (Lehar); Eve Orfeo et Euridice (Gluck). (Massenet); Fairies, The (Wagner); Falstaff Othello (Rossini; Verdi); Pagliacci, Il (Leon(Adam; Balfe; Verdi). cavallo); Penurge (Massenet); Paradise of MaFatinitza (Suppe); Faust (Bertin; Gounod; Peel-homet (Planquette); Parisini (Donizetti; Mascagni); laert; Spohr; Zoellner); Favorita, La (Donizetti); Parsifal (Wagner); Patience (Sullivan); Paul Fedora (Giordano); Feldprediger, Der (Millocker); Jones (Planquette); Paul and Virginia (Lesueur: Fencing Master (De Koven); Fiancee du Tzar, La Masse). (Rimsky-Korsakoff); Fidelio (Beethoven). Figaros Hochzeit (Mozart); Fille de M'me Angot, La (Lecocq): Fille du Regiment, La (Donizetti): Fledermaus, Die (J. Strauss); Filegende Hollander, Der (Flying Dutchman) (Wagner): Forza dei Destino (Verdi); Forced Marriage (Humperdinck); Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff). Freischutz (Weber); Furioso, Il (Donizetti); Gaudeamus (Humperdinck); Gazza Ladra, La (Rossini). Gianno Schicchi (Puccini); Gioconda, La (Ponchielli); Giovanna d'Arco (Verdi): Giovanna di Guzman (Verdi); Girl of the Golden West (Puccini); Gypsy Baron (J. Strauss). Girofle-Girofia (Lecoq); Girolamo Savonarola (Leoncavallo); Griselda (Verdi); Gismonda (Feyrier); Gotterdaemmerung (Wagner); Gondoliers (Sullivan); Griselidis (Massenet); Haddon Hall (Sullivan); Haensel und Gretel (Humperdinck). Hamlet (Thomas); Helene (Saint Saens); Henry VIII (Saint Saens); Herodiade (Massenet): Hia Pearl Fishers (Bizet); Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy); Peri, The (Burgmuller; Dukas); Perichole. La (Offenbach); Petit Duc, Le (Lecocq). Piccolo Marat, Il (Mascagni); Pinafore (Sullivan); Pique Dame (Halevy; Tschaikowsky); Pirate, The (Bellini); Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan); Poet and Peasant (von Suppe); Poliuto, Il (Donizetti). Potemkin's Feast (Ivanoff); Preciosa (Weber); Prince Igor (Borodin); Prince of Pilsen (Luders); Princess Ida (Sullivan); Princess of Trebizond (Offenbach); Prophet, The (Meyerbeer); Puppe, Die (Audran). Puritani, I (Bellini); Queen of Sheba (Goldmark; Gounod): Rantzau, Die (Mascagni); Raymond (Thomas); Regina di Golconda, La (Donizetti); Reginetta della Rose (Leoncavallo); Rheingold, Das (Wagner). Rienzi (Wagner); Rigoletto (Verdi); Rinaldo (Gluck; Handel); Rip Van Winkle (Bristow; De Koven; Leoni); Rita (Donizetti); Rob Roy (De Koven; Flotow); Robert Bruce (Rossini); Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer); Roberto Devereux (Donizetti); Robin Hood (De Koven; Dietrich). Robinson Crusoe (Floravante; Offenbach); Roi d'Ys, Le (Lalo); Roi s'amuse (Delibes); Roland (Leoncavallo); Roma (Massenet); Romeo and Juliet (Bellini; Benda; Delius); Rondine, La (Puccini); Rose of Castile (Balfe); Rosen Kavalier, Der (R. Strauss); Ruddigore (Sullivan). Sylvia (Delibes); Tabarro, Il (Puccini); Taglioni (Meyer-Helmund): Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach). Tancredi (Rossini); Tannhauser (Wagner); Tempest, The (Scott-Gatty; Thomas); Tenation, La (Halevy); Thais (Massenet); Therese (Massent); Thespis (Sullivan); Tosca (Puccini). Tote Stadt, Der (Korngold); Traviata, La (Verdi); Trial by Jury (Sullivan); Trilby (Yourassovsky); Tristan and Isolde (Wagner); Trovatore, (Cortese; Verdi); Troyens, Les (Berlioz).. Trumpeter of Sakkingen (Nessler); Tsar's Bride, The (Rimsky-Korsakoff); Turandot (Puccini); Twilight (Nevin); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Bishop); Tzigane, La (J. Strauss); Uncle Tom's Cabin (Florio); Utopia, Limited (Sullivan); Vagabond and Princess (Poldini). Ruins of Athens (Beethoven); Ruth (Ippolitov-11 Scarlet Letter (Damrosch); Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakoff; Sekles); Schmuck der Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari); Secret, The (Auber; Smetana); Secret de Suzanne (Wolf-Ferrari); Semiramide (Rossini). Seraglio, Il (Mozart); Seraphina, La (Flotow); Servilia (Rimsky-Korsakoff); Shepherd King (Mozart); Siege of Corinth (Rossini); Siegfried (Wagner); Silver Bell (Saint Saens); Simon Boccanegra (Verdi). Singing Lesson (Rossini); Snow Maiden (Snegourochka (Rimsky-Korsakoff); Soixante-six, La (Offenbach); Soldat de Chocolat (O. Straus); Somnambula, La (Bellini); Sorcerer, The (Sullivan); Sorcier au Regiment, Le (Offenbach). Spanish Student (Lange-Muller); Stradella (Niedermeyer); Sultan of Sulu (Wathall); Sunken Bell (Zollner); Sunset Trail (Cadman); Suor Angelica (Puccini). Vakoula the Smith (Tschaikowsky); Vespri Siciliani, I (Verdi); Vestale, La (Mercadante; Spontini; Vigano); Vie Parisienne, La (Offenbach); Villi, Le Violanta (Korngold). Walkuere, Die (Wagner); Water Carrier, The (Cherubini); Werther (Massenet); Wilhelm Tell (Reiser; Rossini); William Ratcliff (Cui; Mascagni; Leroux); Witch Dancers (Puccini); Witch of Salem (Cadman). Yellow Princess (Saint Saens); Yeoman of the Guard (Sullivan); Yolka (Rebikoff); Ysobel (Maseagni): Zaira (Bellini); Zampa (Herold); Zanetta (Auber). Zanetto (Mascagni); Zar and Zimmerman (Lortzing); Zauberflote, Die (Mozart); Zaza (Leoncavallo); Zenobia (Coerne; Pratt); Zilda (Flotow): Zingari (Leoncavallo). Verdi's opera, The Masked Ball, was based on the assassination, Mch. 16, 1792, of King Gustavus III of Sweden, in Stockholm, at a midnight masquerade and dance in the Opera House. Because of censorships in Sweden, France and Italy, the scene was changed to Boston, and at the first performance in Rome, Feb. 17, 1859, Gustavus became Ricardo, Earl of Warwick, Colonial Governor of Boston. The Secret of Cremona Violin Tones According to the late Charles Reade, the English novelist, the Cremona varnish used by Stradivarius was "not a varnish, but two varnishes; and those varnishes always heterogeneous; that is to say, first the pores of the wood are filled and the grain shown up by one, by two, by three and sometimes, though rarely, by four coats of fine oil varnish with some common but clear gum in solution. "Then upon this oil varnish, when dry, is laid a heterogeneous varnish, viz., a solution in spirit of some sovereign, high colored, pellucid, and, above all, tender gum." The "secret" was divulged by Reade in letters published in the London Times. The Actors' Fund of America Source: An Official The Actors' Fund of America was incorporated June 8, 1882, by Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Lawrence Barrett, William J. Florence, Bartley Campbell, Louis Aldrich, A. M. Palmer, Augustin Daly, Lester Wallack, Edward Harrigan, William Henderson, and others. The first regular meeting was held in Wallack's Theatre, New York City, June 15, 1882, and Lester Wallack was elected first President. At that time, Daniel Frohman, President of the Actors' Fund for thirty-six years, was at the first meeting elected the first Secretary, and was nominated for that office by Bartley Campbell, the American playwright. During the fiscal year ending April 30, 1940, the Annual Report shows that Actors' Fund of America received from all sources $146.892.07; and expended $158,149.78. The cost of distributing relief is approximately 17 cents on each dollar. It should be remembered that the Actors' Fund of America is a "national" institution, and the appeals for financial aid come from every section of our country. It is a theatrical charity and not a benefit society. Annual dues are $2, and the paid-up membership is 1,807. of the Institution The only support the Actors' Fund has is by donations and bequests, augmented by benefit performances in principal cities throughout the theatrical season, and from its regular income from a limited endowment fund which is not sufficient to make up the annual deficit. The Actors' Fund Home was founded by Louis Aldrich, the fourth President of the Fund, and was opened at West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., in May, 1902. The Institution was transferred to Englewood, New Jersey, in April, 1928. M. T. Joyce, Superintendent. The Percy Williams Home for Actors, Pine Acres, is at East Islip, Long Island, N. Y. The Directors are made up of Actors' Fund Trustees and members of The Lambs, New York City. The Actors' Fund of America has two burial places. The first was opened July 15, 1886, in the Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn; the second in Kensico Cemetery, Westchester County, in September, 1925. The offices of the Actors' Fund of America are at 1619 Broadway, New York City. Daniel Frohman, President; Robert Campbell, Secretary. The Edwin Forrest Home, Philadelphia Source: An Official The Edwin Forrest Home, established by the will of the famous actor of that name, is located in his native city of Philadelphia, on Parkside Ave., near Belmont Drive, overlooking Fairmont Park. The institution, as provided in the will of the tragedian, is "for the support and maintenance of actors and actresses decayed by age or disabled by infirmity, who, if natives of the United States, shall have served at least five years in the theatrical profession, and if of foreign birth, shall have served in that profession at least ten years, whereof three years next previous to the application shall have been in the United States." The will provided also that "after the number of inmates therein shall exceed twelve, others to be admitted shall be such only as shall receive the ap of the Institution proval of the majority of the inmates, as well as of the managers." There is a small theater in the Home for private exhibitions. Among the Forrest relics in the edifice are his swords, rapiers, dirks. daggers, etc., always inspected with interest by members of the profession. One handsome, short, Roman sword was originally the property of the French tragedian, Talma: Forrest had a somewhat similar sword made for himself on which his name is engraved, while another belonged to Edwin Kean, another to John Philip Kemble. Edwin Forrest was born March 9, 1806, in the Old Southwark part of Philadelphia, and he died Dec. 10, 1872. The Home was first opened in the mansion on his Springbrook estate, in the northern end of the city, Oct. 2, 1876, and was transferred to its present location, Sept. 27, 1928. Arliss, George. 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