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dinand Poise (Paris) ; " The Sorcerer," by Ar- 

 thur Sullivan (London) ; "Lestrois Margots," 

 by Grisar (Brussels). 



Operettas: "Leichtes Blut," by Catenhusen 

 (Hamburg) ; " Le Docteur Ox," by Offenbach ; 

 "L'fitoile," by Chabrier; "Les Cloches de 

 Corneville," by Planquerte ; "La Marjolaine," 

 by Lecocq (all in Paris, the latter also in Mad- 

 rid under the title " Amapola"). 



1878. Of Wagner's "Nibelungen Cycle," 

 produced in its entirety at Baireuth in 1876, we 

 have to enumerate as novelties the perform- 

 ances of the single parts as follows: "Rhein- 

 gold " (Leipsic, Vienna, January 24, Hamburg, 

 Brunswick, November); '-Die Walkiire" 

 (Schwerin, Leipsic. Hamburg, Rotterdam) ; 

 " Siegfried " (Munich, Schwerin, October 6, 

 Vienna, November 9, Leipsic) ; " Die Gotter- 

 dammerung " (Leipsic) ; and finally the whole 

 Cycle (Munich, November 17-21); " Die Offi- 

 ziere der Kaiserin," by Wuerst (Berlin) ; " Gus- 

 tav Wasa," by Karl Gotze (Chemnitz); " Die 

 Albigenser," by Jules de Swert (Wiesbaden, 

 October 1) ; "Ekkehard," by J. J. Abert (Ber- 

 lin) ; " Lancelot," by Hentschel (Bremen), li- 

 bretto by Franz Bittong; " Aennchen von 

 Tharau," by Hofmann (Hamburg); "The Sly 

 Peasant" (Bohemian opera), by DvoMk 

 (Prague) ; '' Polyeucte," by Gounod (Paris, 

 October); "La Reine Berthe," by Victorin 

 Joncieres (Paris, December 23); "The Man- 

 darin's Son," by Cesar Guy (St. Petersburg, 

 December). 



Among the host of Italian operas the follow- 

 ing were fairly successful: "Cleopatra," by 

 Lauro Rossi (Naples) ; " Francesca da Rimini," 

 by Cagnoni (Turin) ; " II Falconiere," by Tom- 

 maso Benvenuti. 



Of operettas the following deserve mention : 

 " Le petit Due," by Lecocq (Paris, London, 

 Pesth, Vienna, Turin, Berlin); "Camargo." 

 by Lecocq (Pans); " Babiale," by Laurent de 

 Rill6 (Paris); " Les deux Mandarins," by Mar- 

 tin Lazare (Schaerbeck, Brussels): "Die letz- 

 ten Mohikaner," by Gen6e (Munich, Leipsic) ; 

 " Das verwunschene Schloss," by Millocker 

 (Vienna); " Die Konigstambours," by Wohaslo 

 (Breslau) ; "Der Teufel auf Erden," by Suppe ; 

 "Konig Jerome," by Ziehrer; ''Cesarine," by 

 Max Wolf (all in Vienna). 



18T9. Operas: "Konradin von Hohenstauf- 

 en," by Gottfried Linder (Stuttgart, January 

 19), libretto by the Grand-duchess Vera, revised 

 by E. Pasqu6 ; " fitienne Marcel," in four acts, 

 by Saint-Saens (Lyons, February 8), libretto by 

 Louis Gallet) ; " Der Rattenfanger von Ham- 

 eln," in five acts, by Nessler (Leipsic, March 

 19, Hamburg) ; " Iwein," by August Klughardt 

 (Neustrelitz, March 28); "Robin Hood," in 

 three acts, by Albert Dietrich (Frankfort, 

 April 6), libretto by Reinhard Mosen ; "Meis- 

 ter Martin nnd seine Gesellen," by Wendelin 

 Weissheimer (Carlsruhe, April 14), libretto 

 after Hoffmann's tale by Dr. Schroder; "Ek- 

 kehard," by Moritz Jaffe (Bremen) ; " Nero," 

 in four acts, by Rubinstein (Hamburg, Novem- 



ber 1, and nine times more in the course of the 

 month), libretto after the French of Jules Bar- 

 bier. Full of dramatic life and a, wealth of 

 melody and rhythm, which produces a pre-emi- 

 nently brilliant impression, this work at the 

 same time did not fail to move the audience 

 deeply by many beautiful details, and was re- 

 ceived with a storm of applause ; the composer, 

 who conducted the opera himself, was called 

 before the foot-lights fourteen times; "Eugen 

 Onagin," by Tschaikowsky (St. Petersburg), 

 after the novel of the same name by Puschkin : 

 " Verful cu dor," by Liubicz (Bucharest, Fet 

 ruary 6), first national opera, libretto by tl 

 Princess Elizabeth of Roumania, under the 

 pseudonym of F. de Laroc. 



Comic operas: " Grafin Dubarry," by Mil- 

 locker (Vienna); "Bianca," by Briill (Di 

 den, November 25) ; u La Marquise des rues,' 

 by Herve; "La courte Echelle," by Membree; 

 '' La petite Mademoiselle," by Lecocq ; " PaqiK 

 Fleuries," by Lacome (all in Paris). 



Operettas:- " Le grand Casimir" and "L 

 jolie Persane," by Lecocq (Paris); "Boccaccio," 

 by Suppe (Vienna, Frankfort, Prague, Leipsic 

 Brunn, Berlin, Pesth); "El lucero de FAlba' 

 and " Amor che empieza y amor che acaba,' 

 by Don Manuel Fernandez Caballero ; " Ui 

 Tigre de Mer," by Llanos (all in Madrid) ; 

 Billet de Logement," by Le"on Vasseur ; 

 Fille du Tambour-major," by Offenbach (botl 

 in Paris). 



1880. Operas: The harvest in this field ws 

 very scanty. France produced only " La Nui 

 de Saint-Germain," by Serpette (Bordeaux) 

 and "La Princesse jaune," by Saint-Saen 

 (Stuttgart). Germany gave us "Jean Cava- 

 lier," by A. Langert (Coburg, January 1) ; 

 " Wieland der Schmied," romantic opera in 

 four acts, by Max Zenger (Munich, January 

 18), libretto by Th. Allfeld after Simrock's 

 poem ; " Agnes Bernauer," in three acts, by 

 Felix Mottl (Weimar, March 28), the text a free 

 adaptation after Hebbel and Bottger ; "Adam 

 de la Halle," in two acts, by Ernst Frank 

 (Carlsruhe, April 10), libretto by Mosenthal 

 after a novel by Heyse; and "Das Nordlicht 

 von Kpsan," an historical opera in four acts, 

 by Carl Pfeffer (Leipsic, August 29), libretto 

 by Carl Krone. From other countries we 

 gather: "Don Giovanni d' Austria," by Mar- 

 chetti (Turin) ; " Tancreda," by Theodor Dah- 

 ler (Florence); "Maria di Gand," by Tito 

 Mattei (London, Her Majesty's Theatre) ; " La 

 Czarine," by Gasparo Villate (The Hague), li- 

 bretto by Armand Silvestre ; "The May Night," 

 by Rimsky-Korsakoff (St. Petersburg, January 

 20); " Kalaschnikoff, the Merchant of Mos- 

 cow," by Rubinstein (St. Petersburg, March 5); 

 " Attala," by Meneses, a Mexican (Guadalajara). 



Comic Operas: "Jean de Nivelle," in three 

 acts, by Delibes, libretto by Gille and Goudinet 

 (Paris, Opera-Comique) ; " La Girouette, in 

 three acts, by A. Coedes (Paris, Fantaisies 

 Parisiennes) ; "Le Beau Nicolas." in three 

 acts, by Paul Lacome (Paris, Folies-Drama- 



