German Opera Libretti [Paperback]

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.

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 Thesl?f (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 Sch?nberg
MOSES AND ARON
Translated by Allen Forte with revisions by Paul Hamburger; adapted by the editor