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12 June 2010: The Bibliography page is a work-in-progress. All of the sources listed in the bibliography are in my possession.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Annesley, Charles. The Standard Opera Glass. New York: Bretano's, 1927. Print.

Blum, Daniel. A Pictorial Treasury of Opera in America. New York: Greenberg, 1954. Print.

Blyth, Alan. Opera on Record. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Print.

Brener, Milton. Opera Offstage; Passion and Politics Behind the Great Operas. New York: Walker, 1996. Print.

Briggs, John. Requiem for a Yellow Brick Brewery; a History of the Metropolitan Opera. Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. Print.

Brocca, Ambrogio. Il Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova. Cronistoria dal 1828 al 1898 (rist. anast. 1898). Print.

Brown, James D. Biographical Dictionary of Muscians: With a Bibliography of English Writings on Music. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1970. Print.

Burgess, Anthony. Der Rosenkavalier; Comedy for Music in Three Acts. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1982, Print.

Caswell, Mina Holway. Ministry of Music: The Life of William Rogers Chapman (Signed by Emma L. Chapman). Portland, ME.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938. Print.

Cavalieri, Lina. My Secrets of Beauty. New York: Circulation Syndicate, 1914. Print.

Christiansen, Rupert. Prima Donna, A History. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985. Print.

Clayton, Ellen Creathorne. Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists Who Have Appeared on the Lyric Stage, From the Earliest Days of Opera to the Present Time. (Volumes 1 & 2) London: Smith, Elder, 1863. Print.

Cone, John Frederick. First Rival of the Metropolitan Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Print.

Cushing, Mary Watkins. The Rainbow Bridge. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1954. Print.

D'Alvarez, Marguerite. All the Bright Dreams, An Autobiography. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1956. Print.

Damrosch, Walter. My Musical Life. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Print.

Darrell, R.D. The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Record Music. New York: Gramophone Shop, Inc., 1936. Print.

Davis, Peter G. The American Opera Singer. New York: Anchor Books, 1997. Print.

Davis, Ronald. Opera in Chicago; A Social and Cultural History, 1850-1965. New York: Appleton-Century, 1966.

Dizikes, John. Opera in America: A Cultural History. New Haven, Ct.: Yale University Press, 1993. Print.

Eaton, Quaintance. The Boston Opera Company; The Story of a Unique Musical Institution. New York: Appleton-Century, 1965. Print.

Eaton, Quaintance. Opera Caravan; Adventures of the Metropolitan on Tour, 1883-1956. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. Print.

Ewen, David. Musicians Since 1900; Performers in Concert and Opera. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1978. Print.

Farrar, Geraldine. Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American Singer - By Herself. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Print.

Finck, Henry T. My Adventures in the Golden Age of Music. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1926. Print.

Fryer, Paul, and Olga Usova. Lina Cavalieri; The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2004. Print

Furman, Evelyn E. Livingston. The Tabor Opera House: A Captivating History. Signed By Author. Aurora, CO.: National Writers Press, 1984. Print.

Ganz, Wilhelm. Memories of a Musician; Reminiscences of Seventy Years of Musical Life. London: John Murray, 1913. Print.

Garden, Mary, and Louis Biancolli. Mary Garden's Story. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951. Print.

Giovine, Alfredo. Il Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari. Stagioni liriche dal 1903 al 1969. Bari: , 1971. Print.

Gourret, Jean. Dictionnaire Des Cantatrices De L'Opéra De Paris. Paris: Albatros, 1987. Print.

Gourret, Jean, and Jean Giraudeau. Dictionnaire Des Chanteurs De L'Opéra De Paris. Paris: Albatros, 1982. Print.

Gray, Evelyn. As Fate Would Have It. Fourteen Years with Adelina Patti, Reminiscences of Louisa Lauw. New York: Frank F. Lovell, 1884. Print.

Hamlin, Anna M. Father was a Tenor. A personal account of the operatic world during the first half of this century. Signed by author. Hicksville, NY.: Exposition Press, 1978. Print.

Hansen, Jack Winsor, and Sibyl Sanderson. The Sibyl Sanderson Story: Requiem for a Diva (Opera Biography). Portland: Amadeus Press, 2005. Print.

Headland, Helen. Christina Nilsson: Story of the Songbird of the North. Rock Island, IL: Augustana Book Concern, 1943. Print.

Hipsher, Edward Ellsworth. American Opera and its Composers. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, 1927. Print.

Hixon, Donald L., and Don A. Hennessee. Women in Music: an Encyclopedic Biobibliography, (Volumes 1 and 2). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1993. Print.

Holderness, Marvin E. Curtain Time in Forest Park: A Narrative of The St. Louis Municipal Opera, 1919-1958. Signed by Author. St. Louis: St. Louis Municipal Theatre Assn., 1958. Print

Hurst, P.G. The Age of Jean de Reszke; 40 Years of Opera 1874-1915. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1959. Print.

Klein, Herman. The Golden Age of Opera. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1933. Print.

Krehbiel, Henry Edward. Chapters of Opera; Being Historical and Critical Observations and Records Concerning the Lyric Drama in New York From its Earliest Days Down to the Present Time. New York: Henry Holt, 1908. Print.

Kutsch, K.J., and Leo Riemens. A Concise Biographical Dictionary of Singers; from the Beginning of Recorded Sound to the Present. Philadelphia: Chilton Book, 1969. Print.

Kutsch, K.J., and Leo Riemens. Großes Sängerlexikon, Erster Band: A-L. Stuttgart, Germany: Francke Verlag Bern, 1987. Print.

Kutsch, K.J., and Leo Riemens. Großes Sängerlexikon, Erster Band: M-Z. Stuttgart, Germany: Francke Verlag Bern, 1987. Print.

Kutsch, K.J., and Leo Riemens. Großes Sängerlexikon, Band 3: Hirata-Mowes. München, Germany: K.G. Saur Bern, 1997. Print.

Kutsch, K.J., and Leo Riemens. Unvergängliche Stimmen: Kleines Sängerlexikon. Munchen: Francke Verlag Bern, 1962. Print.

Lahee, Henry C. Famous Singers. Boston: L.C. Page, 1898. Print.

Lahee, Henry C. Grand Opera in America. Boston: L.C. Page, 1910. Print.

Levik, Sergej J., and Edward Morgan. The Levik Memoirs: an Opera Singer's Notes. London: Symposium Records, 1995. Print.

Lubbock, Mark, and David Ewen. The Complete Book of Light Opera. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. Print.

Lumley, Benjamin. Reminiscences of the Opera. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864. Print.

Mackenzie, Barbara Kruger, and Thomas Findlay Mackenzie. Singers of Australia, from Melba to Sutherland. [Melbourne]: Lansdowne, 1967. Print.

Maione, Paologiovanni, and Francesca Seller. Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Cronologia degli spettacoli (1851-1900), Volume III. Roma: Avagliano Editore, 1999. Print.

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Martin, George. Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years. Berkley: U. of California Press, 1993. Print.

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Pleasants, Henry. The Great Singers: from the dawn of opera to our own time. First edition ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. Print.

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Rogers, Clara Kathleen. Memories of a Musical Career. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919. Print.

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Rosenthal, Harold. The Mapleson Memoirs; The career of an operatic impresario, 1858-1888. New York: Appleton-Century, 1966. Print.

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Salgado, Susana. The Teatro Solis: 150 Years of Opera, Concert, and Ballet in Montevideo. Middleton, N.C.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. Print.

Scott, Michael. The Record of Singing - Volume 1 to 1914. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1977. Print.

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Williams, Wythe. When Chenal Sings the "Marseillaise". New York: E.P. Dutton, 1916. Print.

 

 

 

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